Background
He was born in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, Scotland, and brought up in nearby Saltcoats, on the west coast.
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Michael Garrett
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He went to Saint Mary"s (1969–1976) and Saint Andrew"s Remote Control schools (1976–1982). He graduated with first-class honours at the University of Glasgow (1982–1986). He studied for his Doctor of Philosophy at Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester (1986–1990), supervised Doctor Dennis Walsh.
Career
He started work at the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE) in 1996, working on support for the European VLBI Network. He became the director of JIVE in 2003, and over the course of his four year tenure the number of employees at the institute doubled from 20 to 40. On 1 February 2007 he became the General Director of ASTRON, part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.
He was one of 14 winners of the 2013 International Business Machines Corporation Faculty Award.
In 2016 he became the inaugural Sir Bernard Lovell Chair of Astrophysics and the Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.
