Martin Rees

Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow,  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:   (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010. accessed 31 August 2014 accessed 31 August 2014 accessed 31 August 2014

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.

Rees is a member of the Board of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Oxford Martin School. He co-founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and is on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Future of Life Institute. 

He has formerly been a Trustee of the British Museum, the Science Museum, the Gates Cambridge Trust and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).

His doctoral students have included Roger Blandford, Craig Hogan, Nick Kaiser Priyamvada Natarajan, and James E. Pringle.

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