Astrophysics Group News
Faculty Postgraduate Prize Winners 2011
Many congratulations to David Kipping, winner of the 2011 Faculty Postgraduate Research Prize, and to Marian Breuer, winner of the 2011 Faculty Postgraduate Taught Prize. More...
Stargazing Live
Dr Giovanna Tinetti (Astrophysics Group) talks about the exoplanet Kepler-22b, and how we can look for signs of life on distant planets. More...
Dr Hiranya Peiris recipient of 2012 RAS Fowler Prize for Early Achievement in Astronomy
Dr Hiranya Peiris, a member of the Astrophysics group, has been awarded the 2012 Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Fowler Prize for Early Achievement in Astronomy. More...
ERC Advanced Grant Award for Prof. Ofer Lahav
Professor Ofer Lahav, a member of the Astrophysics group, is one of five UCL members of staff to have been awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant Award.
The project will look at ‘Testing the Dark Energy Paradigm and Measuring Neutrino Mass
with the Dark Energy Survey'. It is due to commence on 1 May 2012 and is worth 2.4M Euro.
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UCL Astrophysics Group
The Astrophysics Group at UCL forms part of the Physics & Astronomy Department. We are one of the largest Astrophysics groups in the UK, comprising about 80 members of academic, research and support staff.
The research areas cover massive stars, star formation, interstellar and circumstellar processes, astrochemistry, cosmology, galaxy formation and evolution, extra-solar planets, atmospheric physics and instrumentation. An overview of the group's research can be found in the most recent Departmental Annual Review.
Our group members are also playing leadership roles in many international projects, covering a time line from the present to 2020 or so. They include the Dark Energy Survey, Euclid, the Hubble Space Telescope, JWST, SPICA, Cassini, Laplace / JUICE, EChO, LOFAR, Planck, Herschel, e-MERLIN and ALMA. In addition, we are part of UCL's Institute of Origins which promotes inter-departmental research.
Contacts:
Head of Group: Prof. Mike Barlow
Administrator: Mrs Kay Nakum (k.nakum AT ucl.ac.uk)
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