ProfessorTimothy Sumner
Professor of Experimental Astrophysics
Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
Orcid identifier0000-0002-3572-600X
- Professor of Experimental AstrophysicsDepartment of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- 020 7594 7552 (Work)
- 1108, Blackett Laboratory, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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- AWARDOutstanding Achievement Award for LISA Pathfinder1 Feb 2017European Space Agency
- EXTERNAL COMMITTEE1 Jan 2011 - 1 Jan 2014
- EXTERNAL COMMITTEE1 Jan 2005 - 1 Jan 2011
- COLLABORATIONImperial College London, SISSA Italy, SA Saclay, OA Padova, MPI Garching, NOA Athens, IfA Edinburgh, IoA Cambridge, DSRI Copenhagen, IdA Tenerife, IdF Cantabria Santander, MPI Heidelberg, IA Paris, IAS Orsay, Leiden University, Cardiff University, OA Bologna1 Jan 1997 - 1 Oct 2002ELAIS (1997 - 2002) - Infra-red observational astronomy using the ISO satellite
- COLLABORATIONStanford University, Imperial College London, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, University of Birmingham, University of Strathclyde, University of Jena, ZARM Bremen, IHES France, University of Trento, JPL, PSI Zurich, ONERA Chatillon, PTB1 Jan 1989STEP (1989 - Present) - Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle to 1 part in 10(18). European PI.
- COLLABORATIONUniversity of Edinburgh, University of Sheffield, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Imperial College London, ITEP-Moscow, LIP-Coimbra, Occidental, Texas A&M, UCLA, University of Rochester.1 Oct 1987 - 1 Oct 2003UKDMC (1987-2003) - Direct dark matter searches at the Boulby mine. Projects inclduing NaI, NAIAD, DRIFT, and ZEPLIN-I, ZEPLIN-II.
- COLLABORATIONUniversity New South Wales, IAS Frascati, University of Tubingen, Imperial College, Case Western Reserve University1 Jan 1987 - 1 Jan 1989SN1987A (1987-1989) - High-energy gamma-ray (50-1000MeV) observations of SN1987A using a balloon-borne instrument.
- COLLABORATIONUniversity of Leicester, University of Birmingham, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RGO Cambridge, Imperial College1 Jan 1984 - 31 Dec 1990ROSAT UK WFC (1984-1990) - Flight Hardware for the ROSAT soft x-ray camera.
- RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISION350um observations with SHARK2Khan SA
- RESEARCH STAFFBewick A
- RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISIONCharge Management System for LISA and LISAPFHollington D
- RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISIONDetecting Cosmic Gravitational-wave Background with LISATang C-J
- RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISIONDevelopment of a Two Phase Xenon Detector for Use in Direct Dark Matter SearchesDavidge DCR
- RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISIONGaAs as a detector for dark matter particles and x-raysGrant SM
- COLLABORATIONIAS Orsay, Caltech, University of Birmingham, ZARM Bremen, ONERA Chatillon, NPL Teddington, Technical University Dresden, University of Missouri, IEEC Barcelona, Nanjing University, Purple Mountain Observatory, Imperial College London, University of Western Australia, Humbolt University Berlin, Leibniz UniversityASTROD (2003 - 2011) - A space mission to test general relativity
- COLLABORATIONImperial College London, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, University of Edinburgh, LIP-Coimbra, ITEP MoscowZEPLIN-III (2003 - 2011) - Direct dark matter search using an advanced two-phase xenon time projection chamber detector. PI and Spokesperson from initiation until 2010.
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