Research Profile:
After an MSc at UCT, Bruce received his PhD under Dennis Sciama at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste in 1998. After a post-doc in the Theoretical Physics Department at Oxford University he went to the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Portsmouth as a Senior Lecturer and then Reader. He spent an extended sabbatical at the Physics Department of Kyoto University, Japan as a Royal Society-JSPS Fellow and spent 2005 as a visiting astronomer at SAAO before joining UCT and SAAO permanently as Associate Professor and astronomer at the beginning of 2006.
His main interests are the cosmology of the early and late universe. He has worked on a variety of topics from brane-gas string cosmology, inflation and preheating to dark energy and gravitational lensing. He is currently involved in several international collaborations including the Sloan Digital Sky Server Supernova Survey (2005-2008) and the WFMOS dark energy survey planned for 2012.
Selected Publications:
(For a full list see here.)
- Bruce A. Bassett, Shinji Tsujikawa, David Wands, "Inflation Dynamics and Reheating", to appear in Rev.Mod.Phys., 2006
- Bruce A. Bassett, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel J. Eisenstein, the WFMOS Feasibility Study Dark Energy Team, "WFMOS - Sounding the Dark Cosmos" RAS A&G, 2005.
- Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Bruce A. Bassett, Hiroaki Nishioka, "Dark energy reflections in the redshift-space quadrupole", Phys.Rev.Lett. 94 (2005) 051301
- Bruce A. Bassett, "Eyes Wide Open - Optimising Cosmological Surveys in a Crowded Market", Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 083517