Curriculum Vitae

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POSITIONS HELD and ACADEMIC HISTORY

  • 1988 - Present Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UCSC
  • 1988 - Present Astronomer, University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory (UCO/Lick)
  • 1985 - 1987 Research Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy Johns Hopkins University
  • 1984 - 1987 Deputy Director, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
  • 1978 - 1984 Astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, Arizona
  • 1976 - 1977 Miller Fellow, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1974 - 1975 Postdoctoral Fellow, Kitt Peak National Observatory Tucson, Arizona
  • 1969 - 1973 Ph.D. (Astrophysics) Australian National University Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory
  • 1965 - 1968 B.Sc. (Honors) 1st Class (Physics), University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

MAJOR ACTIVITIES/ACHIEVEMENTS (LAST 6 YEARS)

  • Major ongoing programs on galaxy evolution in the environment of clusters at z~1, and galaxy formation at high redshft (from z~2~6 and beyond: four graduate students and postdocs plus a number of major HST and Keck collaborations.
  • Chair, Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee. AAAC annual reports to Agencies and Congress
  • Deputy PI, HST Advanced Camera (ACS): Successful completion and launch of most powerful instrument yet on the Hubble Space Telescope. Improved HST's performance by 10X.
  • Completion of HST Key Project, Determining the Hubble Constant to 10%. Achieved 10% goal.
  • Chair, for four years, of Space Telescope Institute Council, STIC.
  • Co-organizer "Hubble's Science Legacy" workshop: science and technical issues for HST successor.
  • Began involvement in the search for planets using space coronagraph (TPF-C STDT).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • 2004 - 2006 Member, TPF-C Science Technology Definition Team
  • 2004 - Chair, AAAC, Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee
  • 2004 Chair, Spitzer TAC (GO Time Assignment Committee)
  • 2002 - 2005 Member, SScAC, NASA Space Science Advisory Committee
  • 2002 - 2004 Member, NAAAC, National Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee
  • 2000 - Member, AURA Board of Directors
  • 1999 - 2001 Member, AAS Tinsley Prize Committee
  • 1999 Member, NGST Instrument Study Team
  • 1999 - 2000 Member, HST Second Decade Study Committee
  • 1998 - 2002 Chair, Space Telescope Institute Council
  • 1997 - Member Representative, Aura (University of California Representative)
  • 1996 - 2002 Member, Space Telescope Institute Council
  • 1995 - 1996 Member, Aura Board (University of California Representative)
  • 1995 HST TAC Panel on Cosmology, Cluster and Distant Galaxies
  • 1995 Member, NRC SSB Task Group on BMDO New Technology Orbital Telescope
  • 1995 - Deputy PI, HST Advanced Camera
  • 1994 - 1995 Member, NASA HQ UVMOWG
  • 1994 Presentation to HST and Beyond Committee on Optical/UV/IR Space Telescopes.
  • 1993 - 1995 Special Invitee, NASA Keck Review Team
  • 1993 - 1996 Member, NASA Planetary Systems Science Working Group
  • 1993 - 1999 Co-Chair, Keck Telescope Science Steering Committee
  • 1992 - 1994 Development of Deep Program at Center for Particle Astrophysics
  • 1992 HST Second Generation Instrument Review Team
  • 1991 - 1993 NASA Planetary Program Towards Other Planetary Systems Science Working Group
  • 1991 Presentation to NASA HQ Planetary Division PSSWG (Science Working Group) on Status of Keck Telescope, January 1991 PSSWG meeting in Washington, DC
  • 1991 - 1993 JPL special review panel for HST replacement camera, WFPC-2, chair Charles Townes
  • 1990 - 1992 Chair, NGST SEWG (Next Generation Space Telescope Science-Engineering Working Group) to oversee technology development program for future large space telescope
  • 1990 Presentation to NASA UV-Visible-Relativity Management Operations Workshop Group on results of Next Generation Space Telescope Workshop, Washington, DC
  • 1990 Presentation to NASA Astronomy Management Operations Working Group of projected UV-Visible Space Mission Program Plan for the 1990s, Washington, DC
  • 1990 Presentation to Marshall Space Flight Center Advanced Projects Group and to Upper Management on Next Generation Space Telescope, Huntsville, Alabama
  • 1989 - 1990 Chair, UV-Optical In Space Panel of Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee: Pre-decade Review of 1990s Science Program, sponsored by NASA, NSF, and DOE, under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
  • 1989 Presentation to NASA UV-Visible-Relativity Management Operations Working Group of plans for workshop and concepts for future space observations, Columbia, Maryland
  • 1989 - 1990 Chair, UV/Optical in Space Panel of Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee
  • 1988 - 1989 Chair, Scientific Organizing Committee for Workshop on The Next Generation: A Successor to Hubble Space Telescope sponsored by NASA Headquarters and STScI
  • 1987 - 1993 Member/Co-Chair (1990-91), Keck Telescope Science Steering Committee
  • 1987 - 1990 Chair, Keck Telescope Segment Acceptance Committee
  • 1987 - 1989 NASA Headquarters UV-Visible-Relativity Management Operations Working Group
  • 1986 - 1987 Co-Chair, Hubble Space Telescope Science Certification Review

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (31 OF 182 FROM LAST 9 YEARS)

  • Clustering of i775 Dropout Galaxies at z ~ 6 in GOODS and the UDF, R.A. Overzier, R.J. Bouwens, G.D. Illingworth and M. Franx. ApJL, 648, L5-L8, 2006
  • Spitzer IRAC Confirmation of z(850)-Dropout Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Stellar Masses and Ages at z ~ 7, I. Labbe, R. Bouwens, G.D. Illingworth and M. Franx, ApJL, 649, L67-L70, 2006
  • Spectroscopic Identification of Massive Galaxies at z ~ 2.3 with Strongly Suppressed Star Formation, M. Kriek, P.G. van Dokkum, M. Franx, R. Quadri, E. Gawiser, D. Herrera, G.D. Illingworth, I. Labbe, P. Lira, D. Marchesini, H.-W. Rix, G. Rudnick, E.N. Taylor, S. Toft, C.M. Urry and S. Wuyts. ApJL, 649, L71-L74, 2006
  • Line Strengths in Early-Type Cluster Galaxies at z = 0.33: Implications for alpha/Fe, Nitrogen, and the Histories of E/S0s, D.D. Kelson, G.D. Illingworth, M. Franx and P.G. van Dokkum. ApJ, 653, 159-183, 2006
  • Galaxies at z ~ 6: The UV Luminosity Function and Luminosity Density from 506 HUDF, HUDF Parallel ACS Field, and GOODS i-Dropouts, R.J. Bouwens, G.D. Illingworth, J.P. Blakeslee and M. Franx. ApJ, 653, 53-85, 2006
  • Rapid evolution of the most luminous galaxies during the first 900million years, R.J. Bouwens and G.D. Illingworth. Nature, 443, 189-192, 2006
  • The Possible z = 0.83 Precursors of z = 0, M* Early-Type Cluster Galaxies, B.P. Holden, M. Franx, G.D. Illingworth, M. Postman, J.P. Blakeslee, N. Homeier, R. Demarco, H.C. Ford, P. Rosati, D.D. Kelson and K.-V.H. Tran. ApJL, 642, L123-L126, 2006
  • Weak-lensing Detection at z ~ 1.3: Measurement of the Two Lynx Clusters with the Advanced Camera for Surveys, M.J. Jee, R.L. White, H.C. Ford, G.D. Illingworth, J.P. Blakeslee, B. Holden and S. Mei. ApJ, 642, 720-733, 2006
  • The Space Density and Colors of Massive Galaxies at 2 < z < 3: The Predominance of Distant Red Galaxies, P.G. van Dokkum, R. Quadri, D. Marchesini, G. Rudnick, M. Franx, E. Gawiser, D. Herrera, S. Wuyts, P. Lira, I. Labbe, J. Maza, G.D. Illingworth, N.M. Forster Schreiber, M. Kriek, H.-W. Rix, E.N. Taylor, S. Toft, T. Webb and S.K. Yi. ApJL, 638, L59-L62, 2006
  • Submillimeter Observations of Distant Red Galaxies: Uncovering the 1 mJy 850 μm Population, K.K. Knudsen, P. van der Werf, M. Franx, N.M. Forster Schreiber, P.G. van Dokkum, G.D. Illingworth, I. Labbe, A. Moorwood, H.-W. Rix and G. Rudnick. ApJL, 632, L9-L12, 2005
  • UV Continuum Spectroscopy of a 6L* z = 5.5 Starburst Galaxy C.C. Dow-Hygelund, B.P. Holden, R.J. Bouwens, A. van der Wel, G.D. Illingworth, A. Zirm, M. Franx, P. Rosati, H. Ford, P.G. van Dokkum, S.A. Stanford, P. Eisenhardt and G.G. Fazio, ApJL, 630, L137-L140, 2005
  • Constraints on z ~ 10 Galaxies from the Deepest Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS Fields, Bouwens, R. J.; Illingworth, G. D., Thompson, R. I.; Franx, M., 2005, Ap.J.L., 624, L5-L8
  • The Fundamental Plane of Cluster Elliptical Galaxies at z = 1.25, B.P. Holden, A van der Wel, M. Franx, G.D. Illingworth, J.P. Blakeslee, P. van Dokkum, H. Ford, D Magee, M. Postman, H.-W. Rix and P. Rosati. ApJL, 620, L83-L86, 2005
  • Infall, the Butcher-Oemler Effect, and the Descendants of Blue Cluster Galaxies at z ~ 0.6, K.-V.H. Tran, P. van Dokkum, G.D. Illingworth, D. Kelson, A. Gonzalez and M Franx. ApJ, 619, 134-146, 2005
  • From z>6 to z~2: Unearthing Galaxies at the Edge of the Dark Ages, Illingworth, G. D., and Bouwens, R. J. , in Penetrating Bars through Masks of Cosmic Dust: The Hubble Tuning Fork Strikes a New Note, eds. D. Block, K. Freeman, R. Groess, I. Puerari, & E.K. Block Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL) vol. 319, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, p.619
  • Galaxies at z~7-8: z850-Dropouts in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, Bouwens, R. J.; Thompson, R. I.; Illingworth, G. D.; Franx, M.; van Dokkum, P. G.; Fan, X.; Dickinson, M. E.; Eisenstein, D. J.; Rieke, M. J., ApJL, 616, L79-L82 2004
  • A Substantial Population of Red Galaxies at z > 2: Modeling of the Spectral Energy Distributions of an Extended Sample, N.M. Forster Schreiber, P.G. van Dokkum, M Franx, I. Labbe, G. Rudnick, E. Daddi, G.D. Illingworth, M. Kriek, A.F.M. Moorwood, H.-W. Rix, H. Rottgering, I. Trujillo, P. van der Werf, L. van Starkenburg and S. Wuyts. ApJ, 616, 40-62, 2004
  • Galaxy Size Evolution at High Redshift and Surface Brightness Selection Effects: Constraints from the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, Bouwens, R. J.; Illingworth, G. D.; Blakeslee, J. P.; Broadhurst, T. J.; Franx, M., 2004, Ap.J.L., 611, 1.
  • Star Formation Rate at z~6: the Hubble Ultra Deep Parallel Fields, R.J. Bouwens, G.D. Illingworth, R.I. Thompson, M.E. Dickinson, D.J. Eisenstein, X, Fan, M. Franx, P. van Dokkum, et al, 2004, Ap. J.L., 606, 25.
  • Star Formation at z~6: i-dropouts in the ACS GTO fields, R.J. Bouwens, G.D. Illingworth, P. Rosati, C. Lidman, T. Broadhurst, M. Franx, H.C. Ford, et al, Ap. J., 2003, 595, 589
  • Cloning Dropouts: Implications for Galaxy Evolution at High Redshift, Rychard J. Bouwens, Tom Broadhurst, Garth Illingworth, Ap. J, 2003, 593, 640.
  • Hubble's Science Legacy: Future Optical/Ultraviolet Astronomy from Space, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 291, held 2-5 April 2002 at University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Edited by Kenneth R. Sembach, J. Chris Blades, Garth D. Illingworth and Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr. ISBN: 1-58381-136-2, 2003.
  • Issues in Early-Type Galaxy Formation and Evolution, G. Illingworth. In: Proceedings of Workshop The Dynamics, Structure and History of Galaxies, ed.: G. Da Costa and E. Sadler, 2002, ASP Conference Series, 273, 275-288.
  • Luminosity Evolution of Field Early-Type Galaxies to z=0.55, P.G. van Dokkum, M. Franx, D.D. Kelson, and G.D. Illingworth, ApJ, 553, 39L, 2001.
  • The Evolution of Balmer Absorption-Line Strengths in E/S0 Galaxies from z=0 to z=0.83, D.D. Kelson, G.D. Illingworth, M. Franx, P.G. van Dokkum, ApJ, 552, 17L, 2001.
  • HST Photometry and Keck Spectroscopy of the Rich Cluster MS1054--03: Morphologies, Butcher-Oemler Effect and the Color-Magnitude Relations, P.G. van Dokkum, M. Franx, D. Fabricant, G.D. Illingworth, and D.D. Kelson, ApJ, 541, 95L, 2000.
  • The Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies in Distant Clusters III. M/L_V Ratios in the z=0.33 Cluster CL1358+62, D.D. Kelson, G.D. Illingworth, P.G. van Dokkum, and M. Franx, ApJ , 531, 184, 2000.
  • The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. XXVII. A Derivation of the Hubble Constant Using the Fundamental Plane and Dn-Sigma Relations in Leo I, Virgo, and Fornax, D.D. Kelson, G.D. Illingworth, J.L. Tonry, W.L. Freedman, R.C. Kennicutt, Jr., J.R. Mould, J.A. Graham, and J.P. Huchra et al, ApJ, 529, 768, 2000.
  • A High Merger Fraction in the Rich Cluster MS1054--03 at z=0.83: Direct Evidence for Hierarchical Formation of Massive Galaxies, P.G. van Dokkum, M. Franx, D. Fabricant, D.D. Kelson, and G.D.Illingworth, ApJL, 520, L95, 1999.
  • GRB 990123 The z=1.61 Redshift from the Keck LRIS Spectrograph, D.D. Kelson, G.D. Illingworth, M. Franx, D. Magee, P. G. van Dokkum, AUC, 7096, 3, 1999.
  • Luminosity Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies to z = 0.83: Constraints on Formation Epoch and Omega, P. van Dokkum, M. Franx, D. Kelson and G. Illingworth. Ap.J. Letters, 504, L17-L21, 1998.
  • A Pair of Lensed Galaxies at z = 4.92 in the Field of CL 1358+62, M. Franx, G. Illingworth, D. Kelson, P. van Dokkum, and K. Tran, Ap.J. Letters, 486, L75-L78, 1997.