Neale Gibson
| Neale Gibson | |
|---|---|
| Born | Neale Patrick Gibson |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Irish |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Queen’s University Belfast |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🏅 Awards | Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2015) European Southern Observatory Fellowship (2012) |
| 🌐 Website | tcd.ie |
Neale Patrick Gibson is an Irish astrophysicist specialising in the observation of exoplanet atmospheres. He is Associate Professor in Astrophysics at the School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, and a Royal Society University Research Fellow.[1][2] Gibson is recognised for contributions to the study of transiting exoplanets, including advances in both space-based and ground-based observational techniques.[3]
Early life and education
Gibson earned an MSc in Physics with Astrophysics at Queen’s University Belfast in 2006. He completed his PhD in Astrophysics at the same institution in 2009 under the supervision of Don Pollacco.[4] In 2017, he obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (PGCHET) from Queen’s University Belfast.
Career
Following his PhD, Gibson was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford (2009–2012). In 2012, he was awarded a European Southern Observatory (ESO) Fellowship in Garching, Germany.[5]
In 2015, Gibson became a lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast[6]. That year he was awarded a Royal Society and Science Foundation Ireland University Research Fellowship, supporting his independent research.[1] He joined Trinity College Dublin in 2019 as Assistant Professor in Astrophysics and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2024.[7]
Research
Gibson’s research focuses on the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets, aiming to understand their compositions, atmospheric physics, and formation processes. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, 14 as first author, and has an h-index of 56.[8] Gibson is one of the few researchers to make significant advances in both space- and ground-based observational techniques.
Gibson has contributed extensively to the field of exoplanet atmospheric science, co-authoring more than ten articles published in Nature. In 2016, he was part of an international collaboration that conducted the first major survey of exoplanet atmospheres, establishing the widespread presence of clouds and hazes in hot Jupiters.[9]This work built upon earlier studies that characterised the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b using multiple instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope and introduced statistical methods for extracting exoplanet light curves.[10][11][12]
He was also a member of the James Webb Space Telescope Early Release Science Team, which carried out some of the first transiting planet observations using the observatory’s full instrument suite. This work led to a series of publications reporting detections of atmospheric carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide—the latter providing direct evidence of photochemical processes.[13][14][15] Other contributions include the first detection of broad-lined sodium features relevant to determining absolute atmospheric abundances, and the first detection of titanium oxide in an exoplanet atmosphere, a molecule linked to thermal inversions in highly irradiated planets.[16][17]
In addition to observational results, Gibson has advanced methodological approaches in the field. He identified the significance of instrumental systematics in Hubble Space Telescope transit observations, and developed Gaussian process-based statistical techniques for analysing exoplanet light curves, which have since become widely used. He also helped establish ground-based multi-object spectroscopy as a viable method for probing exoplanet atmospheres,[18][19] and created a new atmospheric retrieval framework for high-resolution Doppler spectroscopy, applying it to achieve the first retrieval of transmission spectroscopy at high spectral resolution.[20][21]
Honours and awards
- 2024 – Fellow of Trinity College Dublin[22]
- 2024 – Trinity’s Excellence in Teaching Award[23][24]
- 2015 – Royal Society/Science Foundation Ireland University Research Fellowship[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Royal Society announces prestigious University Research Fellowships for 2015 | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
- ↑ Dublin, Trinity College. "Exoplanet Atmospheres - School of Physics | Trinity College Dublin". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
- ↑ Dublin, Trinity College. "Astronomers detect first ever hydroxyl molecule signature in an exoplanet atmosphere". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
- ↑ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
- ↑ iaaadmin (2019-01-14). "Lecture – Weds 23rd January – Dr Neale Gibson (QUB) – "Exploring Alien Worlds: How to find Life in the Universe"". Retrieved 2025-08-11.
- ↑ "Queen's astronomer helps to find an exoplanet atmosphere free of clouds". www.qub.ac.uk. 2018-01-04. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
- ↑ Dublin, Trinity College. "GIBSONNE - School of Physics | Trinity College Dublin". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
- ↑ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
- ↑ Sing, David K.; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Nikolov, Nikolay; Wakeford, Hannah R.; Kataria, Tiffany; Evans, Thomas M.; Aigrain, Suzanne; Ballester, Gilda E.; Burrows, Adam S.; Deming, Drake; Désert, Jean-Michel; Gibson, Neale P.; Henry, Gregory W.; Huitson, Catherine M.; Knutson, Heather A. (2016). "A continuum from clear to cloudy hot-Jupiter exoplanets without primordial water depletion". Nature. 529 (7584): 59–62. arXiv:1512.04341. Bibcode:2016Natur.529...59S. doi:10.1038/nature16068. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 26675732.
- ↑ Gibson, Neale (2011). "A new look at NICMOS transmission spectroscopy of HD 189733, GJ-436 and XO-1: no conclusive evidence for molecular features". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 411 (4): 2199. arXiv:1010.1753. Bibcode:2011MNRAS.411.2199G. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17837.x.
- ↑ Gibson, N. P.; Aigrain, S.; Roberts, S.; Evans, T. M.; Osborne, M.; Pont, F. (2011-11-17). "A Gaussian process framework for modelling instrumental systematics: application to transmission spectroscopy". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 419 (3): 2683–2694. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19915.x. ISSN 0035-8711.
- ↑ Pont, F. (2013). "The prevalence of dust on the exoplanet HD 189733b from Hubble and Spitzer observations". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 432 (4): 2917–2944. doi:10.1093/mnras/stt651.
- ↑ Ahrer, Eva-Maria; Stevenson, Kevin B.; Mansfield, Megan; Moran, Sarah E.; Brande, Jonathan; Morello, Giuseppe; Murray, Catriona A.; Nikolov, Nikolay K.; Petit dit de la Roche, Dominique J. M.; Schlawin, Everett; Wheatley, Peter J.; Zieba, Sebastian; Batalha, Natasha E.; Damiano, Mario; Goyal, Jayesh M. (2023). "Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRCam". Nature. 614 (7949): 653–658. arXiv:2211.10489. Bibcode:2023Natur.614..653A. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05590-4. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 36623551 Check
|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Tsai, Shang-Min; Lee, Elspeth K. H.; Powell, Diana; Gao, Peter; Zhang, Xi; Moses, Julianne; Hébrard, Eric; Venot, Olivia; Parmentier, Vivien; Jordan, Sean; Hu, Renyu; Alam, Munazza K.; Alderson, Lili; Batalha, Natalie M.; Bean, Jacob L. (2023). "Photochemically produced SO2 in the atmosphere of WASP-39b". Nature. 617 (7961): 483–487. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05902-2. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 10191860 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 37100917 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Coulombe, Louis-Philippe; Benneke, Björn; Challener, Ryan; Piette, Anjali A. A.; Wiser, Lindsey S.; Mansfield, Megan; MacDonald, Ryan J.; Beltz, Hayley; Feinstein, Adina D.; Radica, Michael; Savel, Arjun B.; Dos Santos, Leonardo A.; Bean, Jacob L.; Parmentier, Vivien; Wong, Ian (2023). "A broadband thermal emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b". Nature. 620 (7973): 292–298. arXiv:2301.08192. Bibcode:2023Natur.620..292C. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06230-1. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 37257843 Check
|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Nikolov, N.; Sing, D. K.; Fortney, J. J.; Goyal, J. M.; Drummond, B.; Evans, T. M.; Gibson, N. P.; De Mooij, E. J. W.; Rustamkulov, Z.; Wakeford, H. R.; Smalley, B.; Burgasser, A. J.; Hellier, C.; Helling, Ch; Mayne, N. J. (2018). "An absolute sodium abundance for a cloud-free 'hot Saturn' exoplanet". Nature. 557 (7706): 526–529. arXiv:1806.06089. Bibcode:2018Natur.557..526N. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0101-7. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 29736017.
- ↑ Sedaghati, Elyar; Boffin, Henri M. J.; MacDonald, Ryan J.; Gandhi, Siddharth; Madhusudhan, Nikku; Gibson, Neale P.; Oshagh, Mahmoudreza; Claret, Antonio; Rauer, Heike (2017). "Detection of titanium oxide in the atmosphere of a hot Jupiter". Nature. 549 (7671): 238–241. arXiv:1709.04118. Bibcode:2017Natur.549..238S. doi:10.1038/nature23651. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 28905896.
- ↑ Gibson, Neale. "The optical transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-32b: clouds explain the absence of broad spectral features?". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- ↑ Gibson, Neale (2013). "A Gemini ground-based transmission spectrum of WASP-29b: a featureless spectrum from 515 to 720 nm". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 428 (4): 3680–3692. doi:10.1093/mnras/sts307.
- ↑ Gibson, Neale (2022). "Relative abundance constraints from high-resolution optical transmission spectroscopy of WASP-121b, and a fast model-filtering technique for accelerating retrievals Open Access". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. doi:10.1093/mnras/stac091.
- ↑ Gibson, Neale P (2020). "Detection of Fe i in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b, and a new likelihood-based approach for Doppler-resolved spectroscopy". Detection of Fe I in the Atmosphere of the Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b, and a New Likelihood-based Approach for Doppler-resolved Spectroscopy. 493 (2): 2215. arXiv:2001.06430. Bibcode:2020MNRAS.493.2215G. doi:10.1093/mnras/staa228.
- ↑ Wolfe, David (2024-04-22). "Jubilation in Front Square as provost announces 72 new scholars". Trinity News. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
- ↑ Dublin, Trinity College. "Prof Neale Gibson wins award as part of Trinity's Excellence - School of Physics | Trinity College Dublin". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
- ↑ "Centre for Academic Practice, Trinity Teaching & Learning - Trinity College Dublin". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
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