Peter Coles
(1963 - living) U.K.
Professor of astrophysics
He was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, where he did Natural Sciences specialising in Theoretical Physics. He moved to Sussex in 1985 and did a DPhil in Theoretical Astronomy under the supervision of Professor John D. Barrow, the famous writer. Peter stayed on at Sussex for two years as a PDRA, then moved to Queen Mary & Westfield College (University of London) in 1990 to take up a temporary lectureship.
Peter was awarded a PPARC Advanced Fellowship in 1993, which he held there until 1998. Meanwhile he was appointed Lecturer-in-Waiting in 1994 and then promoted to Reader-in-Waiting in 1997. On January 1st 1999 Peter became the first Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Nottingham. His research mainly concerns the origin of the large-scale structure of the Universe.
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