Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex
The Astronomy Centre at the University of Sussex, UK undertakes research in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.
The Astronomy Centre Today
The Astronomy Centre boasts 12 permanent Faculty members, 12 Postdoctoral Research Fellows, 24 PhD students and 15 MSc students.
Their scientific research interests are tightly focused on the extra-galactic: 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.
The Astronomy Centre has the highest research impact in the UK in both Physics and Space Sciences and is a major factor in the University of Sussex having ranked highest by citation impact in all science .
The History of the Astronomy Centre
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 . 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;
Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow