Bahram Mobasher

Bahram Mobasher is an Iranian-born astronomer. He has been a Professor of Observational Astronomy at the University of California, Riverside since July 2007.¹² Mobasher currently holds an H-index above 138.³

Mobasher completed his PhD at Durham University, where he was supervised by Richard Ellis.⁴ He was a postdoc at the University of Leicester (1989–1991), followed by a position as Instrument Scientist on the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) at Imperial College London (1992–1994).¹ He remained at Imperial College as a Research Fellow from 1995 to 2000.¹

From 2000 to 2007, he held dual appointments as a Staff Scientist at the European Space Agency (ESA) and an Associate Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).¹ In 2005, Mobasher and his team found that the starburst galaxy HUDF-JD2 was 'more massive and more mature' than previously expected.⁵ He was also a member of the Cosmic Evolution Survey.⁶⁷

In 2013, Mobasher was part of the team of scientists that discovered the dwarf galaxy z8_GND_5296 using deep optical and infrared images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.⁸⁹¹⁰

• Wiklind, Tommy; Mobasher, Bahram; Bromm, Volker, eds. (2013). The First Galaxies: Theoretical Predictions and Observational Clues. Springer. ISBN 978-9400769489.
• Mobasher, Bahram (2018). Origins: The Story of the Beginning of Everything. Cognella Academic Publishing. ISBN 978-1626614819.