Karl Glazebrook explained to kids

Karl Glazebrook is an Australian astronomer and astrophysicist. He is a professor at Swinburne University of Technology and a member of the Center for Astrophysics and Supercomputing. He is best known for his work on galaxy formation and evolution, and for his contributions to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Glazebrook was born in England in 1966. He moved to Australia with his family in 1971. He attended the University of Melbourne, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1988. He then earned a PhD in astronomy from the University of Cambridge in 1992. After completing his PhD, Glazebrook held postdoctoral positions at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Toronto. He joined the faculty of Swinburne University of Technology in 1995. Glazebrook has conducted research on a wide range of topics in astronomy and astrophysics. His work has ranged from studies of the most distant galaxies in the universe to the properties of the Milky Way. He has also worked on the development of new telescopes and instruments, including the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder. Glazebrook has won several awards for his work, including the annual Prize of the European Southern Observatory in 2004, and the Gruber Prize in Cosmology in 2006.