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I am Canada Research Chair (Tier I) and Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Physics at Saint Mary’s. I also serve as the (acting) Director of the Institute for Computational Astrophysics as reshape the Institute for coming decade.


After an undergrad at McMaster University, I did my graduate work at the University of Toronto where I did some of the first work on photometric redshifts and the seminal work on galaxy physical property estimation using broadband SED fitting.


Between grad school and coming to Saint Mary’s, I held an NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Caltech, was a Plaskett Fellow at NRC's Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, and Research Physicist at the University of California at Santa Barbara.  I came to Halifax in 2007 to take up a faculty position at Saint Mary’s, was Chair of the Department in the mid-2010’s, and was appointed Canada Research Chair in 2017.


While permanently based in Halifax, I have also held visiting positions at Kyoto University (2006-07), Tohoku University in Sendai (2011-12), NRC-Herzberg in Victoria (2019-20), and Kyoto University again (2021).

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Dr. Marcin Sawicki   

    Saint Mary’s University

    923 Robie Street

    Halifax, NS, B3H 3C3, Canada

    office: Atrium Building 319D

    email: marcin.sawicki@smu.ca

 

RECOGNITION & AWARDS

  1. NSERC Discovery Accelerator (2020)

  2. Canada Research Chair -Tier 1 (2017)

  3. CSA Space Science Fellow (2007)

  4. JSPS Fellow (2006, 2012, 2020)

  5. Plaskett Fellow (2001)

  6. NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (1999)

Marcin Sawicki
Professor of Astronomy & Physics
Canada Research Chair in Astronomy