Prof David Buscher
Professor of Astronomical Instrumentation
Biography
- 2023-present: Professor of Astronomical Instrumentation, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
- 2021-2023: Professor of Experimental Astronomy, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
- 2017-2021: Reader in Experimental Astronomy, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
- 1999-2017: University Lecturer, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
- 1994-1999: Senior Research Associate, Department of Physics, Durham
- 1991-1994: Research Scientist, Universities Space Research Association, Washington DC
- 1989-1990: Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
- 1989: PhD, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
Research
I work in the Cavendish Astrophysics theme on astronomical instrumentation at visible and infrared wavelengths. Key research interests include:
- Optical aperture synthesis
- Adaptive optics
- Astronomical seeing
- Wavelength calibration for extreme precision radial velocity spectroscopy
- Manufacture of metre-sized diffraction gratings
- Evolved stars
- Exoplanets
Further information
Please see my personal website.
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This theme focuses on observational studies of the unexplored Universe; from its very first moments, through the mysterious early epochs when the Cosmos became the complex realm of celestial objects we know it to be.