Phil Diamond

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Phil Diamond
Born Philip John Diamond
(1958-02-18) February 18, 1958 (age 66)[1]
Bude, Cornwall, United Kingdom[1]
Residence Manchester[citation needed]
Citizenship UK
Nationality British
Fields Radio astronomy
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Thesis MERLIN observations of the circumstellar envelopes around OH/IR stars (1982)
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Website
www.jb.man.ac.uk/~pdiamond

Philip John Diamond is a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. He was the director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics from 1 October 2006 until 2010. He was the Chief of CSIRO's Astronomy and Space Sciences Division from 1 June 2010[2] and in October 2012 he left CSIRO to become the Director General of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation.[3][4]

Education

Diamond was educated at the University of Leeds ( Bachelor of Science 1979) and the University of Manchester where he was awarded a PhD in Radio astronomy in 1982 for work on MERLIN and OH/IR stars.[1][5][6]

Research

Diamond's research focuses on astrophysical masers.[7][8][9][10]

References

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  6. Phil Diamond's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
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  10. List of published papers


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