Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex

The Astronomy Centre at the University of Sussex, UK [1] undertakes research in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

The centre today

The Astronomy Centre boasts 12 permanent Faculty members and 12 Postdoctoral Research Fellows, as well as many PhD and MSc students.

Their scientific research interests are tightly focused on the early universe, observational cosmology, large-scale structure formation, galaxy clusters and galactic formation and evolution. These problems are examined with a combination of theoretical, numerical and observational techniques.

Members of the Astronomy Centre have been and are involved in many international collaborations including the Dark Energy Survey, Herschel Space Observatory, LOFAR, Square Kilometre Array, Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey, Planck (spacecraft) and POLARBEAR.

History

The Astronomy Centre began in 1965 with the founding of an MSc course, run jointly with the Royal Greenwich Observatory, then based at Herstmonceux in Sussex [2]. This link contains also a link to an article by Roger Tayler on the first 30 years of astronomy at Sussex.

Alumni

The Astronomy Centre has a number of famous former and current members;

• John D. Barrow
• John Gribbin [3]
• Andrew R. Liddle
• William McCrea [4]
• Leon Mestel
• Bernard Pagel
• Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow
• Roger Tayler [5]