Ryan Hickox
Associate Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Dartmouth College
United States of America
Biography
Professor Hickox is an observational astrophysicist with primary interests in supermassive black holes and the evolution of galaxies. He has a B.S. in Physics (2000) from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Astronomy (2007) from Harvard University. He held postdoctoral fellowships at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Durham University in the UK, and joined Dartmouth College in December 2011. His research has been funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation (including a CAREER award), and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Professor Hickox also serves as the House Professor for West House.
Research Interest
Active galactic nuclei, galaxy evolution, large-scale structure of the Universe, the cosmic X-ray background, X-ray binary stars
Publications
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Civano, F, Hickox, RC et al., "The Nustar Extragalactic Surveys: Overview and Catalog from the COSMOS Field", The Astrophysical Journal, 808 (2015) 2
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M. L. Jones, R. C. Hickox , C. S. Black, K. N. Hainline, M. A. DiPompeo, A. D. Goulding, "The Intrinsic Eddington Ratio Distribution of Active Galactic Nuclei in Star-forming Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey", 2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 826, 12
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DiPompeo, M. A.; Hickox, R. C.; Myers, A. D.; Geach, J. E., "A unifying evolutionary framework for infrared-selected obscured and unobscured quasar host haloes", 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464, 3526
