Staff contact details can be found here . Postgraduate training Postgraduate training is given a very high priority within the Dept of Physical Sciences. Each student has a 3-member supervision team at least one of whom will be an experienced supervisor. Astronomy research students are also required to attend a generic University course in research methodology which emphasizes transferable skills. An in-house course provides training in techniques and skills more specific to research in astronomy and astrophysics.
Recent history shows that our graduates have excellent employment prospects.
The 5th recent graduate is training to qualify as a scientific patents lawyer. The Astronomy Group is housed within the University's recently established Science and Technology Research Centre at the main Hatfield Campus. The Centre offers excellent facilities and is shared with physicists, mathematicians and technologists working in a variety of areas including theoretical quantum physics, laser scattering, fluid dynamics, atmospheric physics, neural networks and information technology. Computing For data processing and analysis the Group hosts a full node of the UK Starlink Project , a computing facility for UK research in astronomy. Observing The Group has access on a competitive basis to telescope time at the major UK Observatories.