CASU is involved in survey astronomy with expertise covering ground- and space-based projects ranging from data processing and image analysis techniques through to data curation and access to UK facility data archives.

CODEX is a proposed ultra-stable optical high-resolution spectrograph for the E-ELT utilizing the novel laser-comb wavelength calibration technique.

Gaia is the ESA cornerstone mission set to revolutionise our understanding of the Milky Way.

GREAT is a pan European science driven research infrastructure which will facilitate, through focused interaction on a European scale, the fullest exploitation of the ESA Gaia 'cornerstone' astronomy mission.

Lucky Imaging.

The PathGrid initiative is a collaboration between the IoA and medical oncology and pathology researchers, utilising advanced image analysis and data handling techniques to handle high throughput medical imaging data.

PLATO is one of the three medium class (M class) missions selected for definition study in the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 program.  Its goal is the discovery and study of extrasolar planetary systems using transits.

This is the longest-standing of all the Institute's research projects. The majority of the observations is made on-site with the radial-velocity instrument at the 36-inch telescope.

Development of unfolding, thermal infra-red, self-aligning space telescopes and their application to climate change mitigation.

The aim of the Vista Hemisphere Survey (VHS) is to carry out a deep near Infra-Red survey and discover the most distant quasars in the Universe.