| Roberto Abraham | |
| Birth Date: | 12 April 1965 |
| Field: | Astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology |
| Work Institution: | University of Toronto |
| Alma Mater: | University of British Columbia |
| Thesis Title: | Imaging of BL Lac Objects |
| Thesis Year: | 1992 |
| Thesis Url: | https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/252/4/482/1085685 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Ian M. McHardy and Roger Davies |
| Known For: | Observational cosmology, galaxy evolution, first galaxies |
Roberto Abraham, FRSC (born 12 Apr 1965, Manila, Philippines) is a Canadian astronomer and is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Abraham received a Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia in 1987 and a PhD from Oxford University in 1992, working under the supervision of Ian M. McHardy and Roger Davies.
He did post-doctoral work at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and the Royal Greenwich Observatory.[1]
Abraham's career has been notable for his contributions via non-parametric statistics to galaxy morphological classification, especially at high-redshift and early work on the Hubble Deep Field.[2] He was one of the leaders of the "Gemini Deep Deep Survey"[3] which led to several notable results on early galaxies including the evolution of elliptical galaxies and why a lot of them appear so remarkably old.[4]
He is currently a co-principal-investigator on the Dragonfly Telephoto Array telescope, which images ultra-low surface brightness galaxies at visible wavelengths of light.[5]
Abraham was the President of the Canadian Astronomical Society from 2016 to 2018.[6] He currently serves the astronomical community by participating on the James Webb Space Telescope Advisory Committee[7] and is Honorary President of the Toronto Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.[8]