Prof. Dr. Gordon Todd Richards

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsAstronomy,Astrophysics
Keywordsgalaxy evolution, stochastic processes, accretion disks, black holes, Quasars
Honours and awards

2017: Provost's Award for Outstanding Scholarly Productivity

2013: Humboldt Research Fellowship

2009: Antelo Devereux Award for Young Faculty

2007: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityPhiladelphia
InstitutionDrexel University
InstituteDepartment of Physics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Hans-Walter RixMax-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2013

Programme(s)

2011Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2013Allison Hill, S. C. Gallagher, R. P. Deo, E. Peeters, Gordon Todd Richards: Characterizing Quasars in the Mid-infrared: High Signal-to-Noise Quasar Templates. In: MNRAS, 2013,
2013Stephanie LaMassa, C. Megan Urry, Nico Cappelluti, Francesca Civano, Piero Ranalli, Eilat Glikman, Ezequiel Treister, Gordon Richards, et al.: Finding Rare AGN: XMM-Newton and Chandra Observations of SDSS Stripe 82. In: MNRAS, 2013,
2013Nicholas Ross, Ian McGreer, Martin White, Gordon Richards, Adam Myers, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Michael Strauss, et al.: THE SDSS-III BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY: THE QUASAR LUMINOSITY FUNCTION FROM DATA RELEASE NINE. In: ApJ, 2013, 14-31
2013E. Lusso, J. Hennawi, A. Comastri, G. Zamorani, G. Richards, C. Vignali, E. Treister, K. Schawinski, M. Salvato, R. Gilli The Obscured Fraction of AGN in the XMM-COSMOS Survey: A Spectral Energy Distribution Perspective. In: Astrophysical Journal, 2013,