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Evan D. Skillman

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American astrophysicist

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Evan D. Skillman
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Astrophysics
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According to Wikipedia, Evan David Skillman is an American astronomer and astrophysicist. Education and career Evan Skillman graduated in 1977 with a B.A. in physics from Cornell University and in 1984 with a Ph.D. in astronomy from Seattle's University of Washington. His Ph.D. thesis Physical Conditions in Giant Extragalactic H II Regions was supervised by . Skillman was a postdoc at the ASTRON Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy, where his supervisor was , and then at the University of Texas, where his supervisor was Gregory A. Shields. In 1989 Skillman became a faculty member in the University of Minnesota's astronomy department, where he is now the director of the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics and a College of Science and Engineering Distinguished Professor. He took leave of absence for sabbatical years at Garching's Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, where his host was Simon White, and at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy, where his host was Stephen Smartt. In 2012 and 2013, Skillman was one of the leaders of the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury project. Part of the project made available large amounts of Hubble Space Telescope image data and used volunteer citizen scientists to analyze stellar clusters in the Andromeda Galaxy. The large number of citizen scientists accomplished in 12 days what would have taken the far smaller team of professional scientists approximately one year.

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