News
September 2023
QMUL Astronomy Unit win SEPnet award for public engagement
Centre for Fundamental Physics
28 September 2023The Astronomy Unit has jointly topped the Research Group category at the biennial SEPnet Public Engagement awards, being one of only two groups chosen as "Highly Commended". SEPnet noted how the QMUL Astronomy Unit has embedded outreach and public engagement within the culture of the group. Over the last year, ... [more]
Dr Ed Gillen receives €1.5 million European Research Council Grant to study exoplanet evolution
Faculty of Science and Engineering
5 September 2023Dr Ed Gillen, from Queen Mary's Astronomy Unit, has been awarded €1.5 million from the European Research Council to support a team to investigate how exoplanetary systems evolve into potentially habitable environments. With over 5000 exoplanets discovered to date, and many more expected in the coming years, we are living through a ... [more]
July 2023
Queen Mary Part of New Leverhulme Grant for Astrobiology
Centre for Fundamental Physics
13 July 2023Queen Mary's new inter-school astrobiology initiative has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Trust Research Project grant. Led by Thomas Haworth from the Queen Mary Astronomy Unit and Christopher Duffy from the Digital Environment Research Institute (DERI), with involvement from Conrad Mullineaux from the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences (SBBS), ... [more]
February 2023
Dr Tom Haworth awarded €2m from European Research Council to investigate planet forming discs
Centre for Fundamental Physics
3 February 2023Dr Thomas Haworth from QMUL's Astronomy Unit has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant worth €2m to investigate how planet forming discs evolve in different environments. We now expect that pretty much every star in our Galaxy hosts at least one planet. We also have overwhelming evidence ... [more]