Michael Balogh

Professor Balogh obtained his BSc from McMaster University (Physics and Mathematics, 1994), and PhD in Astrophysics from University of Victoria in 1999. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Durham University, UK, from 2000-2004, before taking up a faculty position at the University of Waterloo. In addition to his research and teaching activities, Prof. Balogh has been a leader in the Canadian astronomical community. He was Chair of the Board of Directors for the Gemini Observatory (2012-2014), Vice-Chair and then Chair of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (2023-2025), and a member of the Board of Directors for the Thirty Meter Telescope (2024-). He has served on the Ground Based Astronomy Committee, the CASCA/ACURA TMT Advisory Committee (Chair 2017-2024) and the Long Range Plan Implementation Committee of CASCA.

• Exoplanets

• Planet Formation (theory)

• Galaxy Formation and evolution (observations)

• 1999 PhD Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC Canada

• 1995 BSc Honours Mathematics and Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON Canada

• 2020 Executive Award for Exceptional Service, Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA)

• 2007-2011, Early Researcher Award, University of Waterloo

• 2024-Board of Directors for the Thirty Meter Telescope

• 2024 Chair, Future of Physics Committee (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

• 2023-2025 Vice-Chair and then Chair of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

• 2020- Ground Based Astronomy Committee, CASCA

• 2017-2024 Chair, CASCA/ACURA TMT Advisory Committee

• 2015-2021 Associate Chair, Undergraduate (U Waterloo)

• 2014-2015 CASCA Long Range Plan Midterm Review Committee

• 2011-2024 CASCA Long Range Plan Implementation Committee

• 2010-2014 Board of Directors, Gemini Observatory (Chair 2012-2014)

• 2009-2012 CASCA Awards Committee

• 2006-2009 Optical and Infrared Astronomy in Canada (CASCA subcommittee), Chair

• Member, International Astronomical Union (IAU)

• Member, Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA)

• Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics

• PHYS 122 - Waves, Electricity and Magnetism
  • Taught in 2024
• PHYS 275 - Planets
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025
• PHYS 474 - Galaxies
  • Taught in 2020, 2024, 2025

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• Morgan, C. R, Balogh, M. et al., (2024) A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE): XVI. The ubiquity of truncated star-forming discs across the Virgo cluster environment, A&A https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024A%26A...691A..20M/abstract

• Sazonova, L, Morgan, C., Balogh, M. et al. (2024), RMS asymmetry: a robust metric of galaxy shapes in images with varied depth and resolution, OJAp

• Xie, L., De Lucia, G., Fontanot, F., Hirschmann, M., Bahe, Y., Balogh, M. et al. (2024), The first quenched galaxies, when and how?, ApJL

• Cheng, I., Woods, T., Cote, P. et al. (2024), FORECASTOR -- I. Finding Optics Requirements and Exposure times for the Cosmological Advanced Survey Telescope for Optical and UV Research mission, AJ.

• Gully, H., Hatch, N., Bahe, Y., Balogh, M. et al. (2024), Spitzer-selected z > 1.3 protocluster candidates in the LSST Deep Drilling Fields, MNRAS

• Edward, A. H., Balogh, M. et al., including J. Marchioni (2024), The stellar mass function of quiescent galaxies in protoclusters, MNRAS

• Cheng, C., Villaume, A., Balogh, M., Brodie, J., Martin-Navarro, I., Romanowsky, A., van Dokkum, P. (2023), Initial mass function variability from the integrated light of diverse stellar systems, MNRAS

• Baxter, D., Cooper, M., Balogh, M. et al. including Reeves, A (2023), When the Well Runs Dry: Modeling Environmental Quenching in Massive Clusters at z≳1, MNRAS

• Webb, K., Villaume, A., Balogh, M. et al. (2023), Still at odds with conventional galaxy evolution: the star formation history of ultradiffuse galaxy Dragonfly 44, MNRAS

• Baxter, D., Cooper, M., Balogh, M. et al. (2022), The GOGREEN survey: constraining the satellite quenching time-scale in massive clusters at z ≳ 1, MNRAS