Research

• Assembly history of the Milky Way
• Late stages of stellar evolution & Planetary Nebulae
• Supernova cosmology & Supernova Alerts
• ESA Gaia
  • Member of ESA Gaia Science Team (2007- to date)
  • Chair of the COST Action CA18104 / MW-Gaia (2019 - to date)
  • Lead of the UK Gaia DPAC project (2021 - to date)
  • Lead Proposer of the EU MW-Gaia Doctoral Network (2023 - 2027)
  • Lead of IoA team in the GENIUS programme (2013-2017)
  • Coordinator of the GREAT Marie Curie Initial Training Network (2011-2015)
  • Chair of the GREAT ESF Research Network Programme (2010-2015)
• Wide Field Spectroscopy
  • WEAVE: Member of the Science Team, core group Galactic Archaelogy Survey, PI of the core data processing and PI of the Cambridge participation 
  • 4MOST: Member of the 4MOST STSC, lead of the Data Management System and IoA Project Manager
• ESA PLATO
  • Lead of the Exoplanet Analysis System team,
  • Member PDC-Exec. 
• ESA CHEOPS:
  • Lead of the IoA/Cambridge consortium participation,
  • UK CHEOPS Board member.
• LSST
  • Member of the LSST Stars, Milky Way & Local Volume Science Collaboration
• ESA Euclid
  • Lead of IoA Cambridge Euclid team in the Euclid Ground Segment: OU-VIS
  • Member of the Euclid SN Science Working Group
• GaiaNIR
  • Lead of the GaiaNIR UKSA National Space Technology Programme Study (2021-2022)
  • Lead of the GaiaNIR:UK consortium
• Medical Imaging
  • co-I of the IMAXT Cancer Research UK Grand Challenge Team
  • Investigator: AI Assisted Diagnosis and Prognostications in Covid-19 Team
  • PI of the PathGrid medical imaging project
• Information Technologies
  • Technical Director of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre 
• Further details for publications - see ADS (astronomy), Pubmed (medical) or Google Scholar pages

Career

Director of Research (G12): IoA, University of Cambridge

• 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

• Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2015) - as a member of the Supernova Cosmology Project
• Gruber Prize for Cosmology (2007) - as a member of the Supernova Cosmology Project

Other

• [2016] Gaia: The Data Deluge: interview on Naked Scientists
• [2015] LENS: glass work inspired by stars and cells: see the Cancer Research UK science blog