Dr Will Sutherland

Profile

My research has covered several areas relating to observational cosmology; in the 1990s I worked as a postdoctoral fellow and SERC Advanced Fellow in Oxford working on the IRAS PSCz redshift survey, the MACHO project gravitational microlensing survey (constraining compact-object dark matter), and the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, which made the first detection of redshift-space distortion in 2001 and the joint-first detection of baryon acoustic oscillations in 2005.  

From 2000 to 2009 I was the Project Scientist for design and construction of the VISTA telescope in Chile, first based at Edinburgh and Cambridge, joining QMUL (lead institute on VISTA) in 2007. Since the successful commissioning of VISTA in 2009, I have worked on several cosmological surveys using VISTA observations, including VIKING, GAMA and SHARKS. I am also involved in the design of the next-generation instrument for VISTA, a 2400-object multifibre spectrograph called 4MOST; and am working on constraining modified gravity using data from the GAIA spacecraft.     

Research

Publications

• Baugh CM, Croton DJ, Gaztanaga E et al. (2004). The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: hierarchical galaxy clustering. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07962.x

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Verde L, Heavens AF, Percival WJ et al. (2002). The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: the bias of galaxies and the density of the Universe. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05620.x

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Alcock C, Allsman RA, Alves DR et al. (2001). The MACHO project: Microlensing detection efficiency. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1086/322529

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Cole S, Norberg P, Baugh CA et al. (2001). The 2dF galaxy redshift survey: near-infrared galaxy luminosity functions. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04591.x

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Alcock C, Allsman RA, Alves DR et al. (2001). The MACHO project LMC variable star inventory. X. The R Coronae Borealis stars. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1086/321369

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Peacock JA, Colless M, Peacock J et al. (2001). Measuring large-scale structure with the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. nameOfConference

  
  

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  QMRO: qmroHref

Supervision

This is not an exhaustive list and I would be happy to discuss other project possibilities.