Scott Croom

Scott Croom
Born
Scott Martin Croom
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsObservational astronomy
InstitutionsUniversity of Sydney
ThesisCosmology and large-scale structure from quasar redshift surveys (1997)
Doctoral advisorTom Shanks
Websitewww.physics.usyd.edu.au/~scroom/

Scott Martin Croom is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sydney.

Croom completed his PhD at Durham University in 1997. Following a postdoc at Imperial College London, he moved to Australia in 2000 to work at the Anglo-Australian Observatory, and joined the University of Sydney in 2006.

He describes his main research interests as cosmology and galaxy formation and evolution. He was the project leader of the team of astronomers that developed the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral Field Spectrograph (SAMI), for which they received the inaugural Peter McGregor Prize from the Astronomical Society of Australia in 2016.

In 2024, he was first author of a study that revealed age as the 'driving force' in determining how stars move within galaxies.

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