Research

• Assembly history of the Milky Way
• Late stages of stellar evolution
• Supernova cosmology
• ESA Gaia
  • Member of ESA Gaia Science Team
  • Coordinator of the GREAT Marie Curie Initial Training Network
  • Chair of the GREAT ESF Research Network Programme
• Wide Field Spectroscopy
  • WEAVE: Member of the Science Team
  • 4MOST: Member of the Science Team and IoA Project Manager
• ESA Euclid
  • Lead of IoA Cambridge Euclid team in the Euclid Ground Segment: OU-VIS
  • Member of the Euclid SN Science Working Group
• Planets
  • ESA PLATO: lead of the Exoplanet Analysis System team
• Information Technologies
  • Technical Director of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre
• Medical Imaging
  • PI of the PathGrid medical imaging project
• Further details for publications - see my Google Scholar page

Career

• Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge: 2001 to present
• Royal Greenwich Observatory: 1993 - 2001
• University College London: 1989-1992
• Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen: 1987-1989 

Qualifications

• PhD - Imperial College, London
• MBA - Open University
• BSc (Hons) Physics - University of Nottingham

Awards and Prizes

• Gruber Prize for Cosmology (2007)