Rate My Professor Roger Deane

Professor Roger Deane is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Pretoria, where he heads the Radio Astronomy research group. He holds a D.Phil. in Astrophysics from the University of Oxford and B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Astrophysics from the University of Cape Town. His research focuses on binary supermassive black holes, strong gravitational lensing, wide-field VLBI surveys, black hole shadow detection with the Event Horizon Telescope, radio interferometry techniques, and high redshift galaxies.

Deane contributed to the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, which produced the first images of the supermassive black holes in M87 and Sagittarius A*. He serves as Director of the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy and has held positions including Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria. His professional email address is roger.deane@up.ac.za.