Ken Freeman

Ken Freeman is Duffield Professor of Astronomy at the Australian National University in Canberra. He studied mathematics at the University of Western Australia and theoretical astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. Following a postdoc at the University of Texas and a fellowship of Trinity College, Cambridge.

He is interested in the formation of galaxies, and in 1970 was one of the first to show that spiral galaxies contain a large fraction of dark matter. He has published several books and about 450 research articles. In 2002 he co-founded the new field of Galactic Archaeology.

In 2012 he won the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society in 2013, and the international Gruber Prize for Cosmology in 2014. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS).

Dr Freeman is also a Distinguished Fellow of ISCAST–Christians in Science and Technology.