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Evan Skillman
Professor (Minnesota Insitute for Astrophysics)
241 Tate, 624-9523, email skillman @ astro.umn.eduhttp://webusers.astro.umn.edu/~skillman/
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Professor, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 1997-; Visiting Astronomer, Institute for Astronomy, Cambridge University, 2002-2003; Associate Professor, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 1993-1997; Assistant Professor, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 1989-1993.
Recipient of UofMN Bush Sabbatical Fellowship (1995, 2002); UofMN Institute of Technology Outstanding Instructor Award (1995, 1996); UofMN Institute of Technology Academic Mentoring Award (1995); UofMN Best Director of Graduate Studies (2005).
Member of the American Astronomical Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the International Astronomical Union, and the Royal Astronomical Society (England).
Research Areas
Extragalactic Observational Astronomy; Specializing in: Chemical Evolution of Galaxies, Structure and Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies, H II Region Abundances, Star Formation, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, Cluster Galaxies [Research Group Web Page]Selected Publications
Kobulnicky, Henry A.; Skillman, Evan D., Elemental Abundance Variations and Chemical Enrichment from Massive Stars in Starbursts. II. NGC 1569, Astrophysical Journal [abstract]
Skillman, Evan D.; Televich, Roberto J.; Kennicutt, Robert C., Jr.; Garnett, Donald R.; Terlevich, Elena, Spatially resolved optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of the low-metallicity galaxy UGC 4483, Astrophysical Journal [abstract]
Skillman, Evan D.; Kennicutt, R. C.; Hodge, P. W., Oxygen abundances in nearby dwarf irregular galaxies, Astrophysical Journal [abstract]
Education
Ph.D., Astronomy, University of Washington, 1984