Annette Ferguson

Annette Mairi Nelson Ferguson FRSE 'yar Scotland ce mai lura da astrophysicist wacce ta kware a fannin juyin halittar galaxy .Ita farfesa ce a Cibiyar Nazarin Astronomy,Edinburgh, kuma tana riƙe da Kujerar Keɓaɓɓu a cikin Binciken Astrophysics a Makarantar Physics da Astronomy,Jami'ar Edinburgh.

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Binciken Ferguson ya mayar da hankali kan gudanar da duban taurari da iskar gas a cikin taurarin da ke kusa don samun fahimtar samuwar da juyin halitta a cikin Milky Way.Yawancin ayyukanta na baya-bayan nan sun mayar da hankali kan Andromeda Galaxy,ƙaton galaxy mai karkace a unguwar mu na galactic.

Binciken nata ya yi amfani da na'urorin hangen nesa na ƙasa a cikin Canary Islands,Chile,da Hawaii da kuma nagartattun kayan aikin da ke cikin jirgin Hubble Space Telescope.Ferguson kuma yana da hannu a cikin shirin yin amfani da bayanan nan gaba ta hanyar Euclid Hukumar Kula da Sararin Samaniya ta Turai,da kuma Vera C.Rubin Observatory,wanda a halin yanzu ake gini a Chile.

Asali daga Scotland,Ferguson ya kammala karatunsa na BSc tare da Distinction in Physics da Astronomy daga Jami'ar Toronto,kuma ya sami digiri na uku a fannin ilimin Astrophysics daga Jami'ar Johns Hopkins da ke Baltimore.

Ta taba gudanar da karatun digiri na biyu a Cibiyar Astronomy,Cambridge, Cibiyar Astronomical Kapteyn a Groningen,Netherlands,kuma ta kasance ma'aikaciyar digiri na Marie Curie a Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik a Garching, Jamus.

Ferguson ya koma Scotland a 2005, inda ya dauki Lectureship a Jami'ar Edinburgh, kafin a inganta shi zuwa Karatu a 2007, da Farfesa a 2013.