Research Areas:
Cosmology, Early Universe, Large-Scale Structure, Galaxy Formation, Galaxy Clusters, Gravitational Lensing

Prof. Nick Kaiser received his BSc in Physics from Leeds University in 1978, then completed his PhD in Astronomy at Cambridge University in 1982. He held Post Doctoral Fellowships at the University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Santa Barbara, and Cambridge before joining the faculty of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) in Toronto in 1988. Prof. Kaiser joined the University of Hawaii in 1997 and is currently the Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics.

Prof. Kaiser's research interests focus on a wide range of cosmological problems related to the formation of galaxies and large-scale structure in the Universe. These include anisotropy of the microwave background, "bulk-flows", analysis of galaxy clustering from redshift and angular surveys, and the evolution and clustering of clusters of galaxies. In recent years his research has been mainly focused on developing the theory and observational techniques for "Weak Gravitational Lensing" as a probe of the dark matter distribution.

Prof. Kaiser received a number of awards including the Helen Warner Prize of the American Astronomical Society (1989), an NSERC Steacie Fellowship (1991-92), the Herzberg Medal of the Canadian Association of Physicists (1993) and the Rutherford Medal of the Royal Society of Canada (1997). In 2008, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.