National Research Council
David Schade develop an interest in astronomy
at the age of 25 stimulated by his mother's acquisition
of a telescope upon her retirement. After a couple of years
of dabbling with astro-photography on his visits home and
enduring frigid nights in the Canadian Rockies, the desire
to understand more about the universe became overwhelming
and he abandoned his career as a blues guitarist to begin
university at the age of 27. He obtained his doctorate in
1990 from the University of Victoria and moved with his
wife and children to England to work at Cambridge University
on the Hubble Space Telescope Medium Deep Survey project.
After three years, Dr. Schade moved to the University of
Toronto to analyse HST imaging of faint galaxies in the
Canada-France Redshift Survey with Prof. Simon Lilly. In
1996 Dr. Schade accepted a position with the National Research
Council of Canada as a staff member of the Canadian Astronomy
Data Centre in Victoria, where he is currently the Group
Leader. His hobbies are astronomy, travel, and playing acoustic
and electric guitar. |
