Rate My Professor Nick Seymour

Dr. Nick Seymour is a Senior Lecturer at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA), part of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He is affiliated with the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences. Seymour obtained his MPhys from the University of Oxford and PhD from the University of Southampton in 2002, where his doctoral thesis focused on 'Radio observations of the United Kingdom deep X-ray survey area.' Following his PhD, he undertook several postdoctoral positions and previously worked at organizations including CSIRO. He is a Fellow of the Astronomical Society of Australia (FASA), recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (grant FT100100737), and currently serves as a Councillor for the Astronomical Society of Australia. Seymour teaches courses such as ASTR1003 Introduction to Astronomy and supervises higher degree research students on projects involving massive black holes at cosmic dawn, neutral hydrogen in distant galaxies, and radio-loud AGN.

Seymour possesses wide expertise in multi-wavelength extragalactic astronomy, investigating the evolution of galaxies and their interplay with central supermassive black holes. As leader of the High-z Radio Galaxy Group, his research leverages radio telescopes including the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), and preparations for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Key areas include radio luminosity functions of star-forming galaxies, JWST calibrations of star formation rates, dust extinction corrections using radio data, properties of polarized radio sources, host-galaxy identifications for radio sources, jet-induced shocks in young radio galaxies, and the co-evolution of halos and quasars. With over 400 publications listed on ResearchGate and approximately 17,987 citations on Google Scholar yielding an h-index of 74, his work has significant impact in the field. Select publications encompass 'A JWST Paα Calibration of the Radio Luminosity–Star Formation Rate Relation at z ∼ 1.3' (2024), 'MIGHTEE: The evolving radio luminosity functions of star-forming galaxies to z ∼ 4.5 and the cosmic history of star formation' (2026), 'Properties of Polarized Radio Sources in the Wide Chandra Deep Field South from 2 to 4 GHz' (2026), 'EMU/GAMA: Refining Dust Extinction Corrections for Hα Luminosity Functions Using Radio-Based Calibration' (2026), and 'The GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample: III. Further host-galaxy identification, and redshift assessment' (2026).