2023
AU academic awarded €2m from European Research Council to investigate planet forming discs
Dr 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.
Date added: Friday, February 3, 2023
A new Tatooine-like multi-planetary system identified
Researchers in QMUL’s Astronomy Unit were involved in the discovery of a new multi-planetary system orbiting two stars, only the second such system known to exist
Date added: Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Queen Mary Astronomy Unit Part of New Leverhulme Grant for Astrobiology
Queen Mary's new inter-school astrobiology initiative has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Trust Research Project grant.
Date added: Thursday, July 13, 2023
Astronomy Unit member receives €1.5 million European Research Council Grant to study exoplanet evolution
Dr 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
Date added: Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Queen Mary students win Undergraduate of the Year awards
Queen Mary’s Leila Pooriakia and Monzur Chowdhury pipped out thousands of students to be named as undergraduates of the year in the nation-wide TARGETjobs Undergraduate of the Year Awards.
Date added: Friday, May 5, 2023
From small to large: a study of gravitational waves using scattering amplitudes of subatomic particles
A recently awarded grant on current research done in the CTP related to gravitational waves features in the Leverhulme Trust newsletter.
Date added: Thursday, May 25, 2023
Join us for an Exciting Physics and Astronomy Open Day at Queen Mary University of London!
We are happy to announce an exciting Queen Mary University of London Open Day event for prospective physics and astronomy undergraduate students on Saturday, 7 October starting at 10am in the GO Jones building on the Mile End Campus!
Date added: Monday, September 25, 2023
We are delighted to welcome our new members to the Centre of Theoretical Physics!
Latest additions to our team:
Date added: Tuesday, September 26, 2023
QMUL's Astronomy Unit members deliver a series of talks at the Royal Institution
Five academics from QMUL, including four from the Astronomy Unit, have delivered a series of talks at the Royal Institution, covering topics in Astronomy from stars, to gravitational waves and cosmology.
Date added: Thursday, August 31, 2023
Astronomy Unit win SEPnet award for public engagement
The 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”.
Date added: Thursday, September 28, 2023
New James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal potential for earth-like planets in harsh environments
A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests that planets like Earth, including those with water, could form even in the harshest known star-forming environments. These environments, drenched in intense ultraviolet radiation from massive stars, were previously thought to be too hostile for planet formation.
Date added: Thursday, November 30, 2023
New research journal launched by Astronomy Unit member
Dr Enrico Camporeale, Senior Lecturer in Queen Mary’s Astronomy Unit, has become the founding editor-in-chief of the new journal, Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Machine Learning and Computation
Date added: Friday, December 8, 2023
The PPRC brings the UK into the Belle 2 experiment
Particle physicists from QMUL joined the 1200-strong Belle 2 experiment to work on searches for cracks in the Standard Model of particle physics and to develop a new kind of silicon detector for electron-positron colliders.
Date added: Thursday, October 26, 2023
Two postdoctoral research positions at the Centre for Theoretical Physics
The Centre for Theoretical Physics is seeking to appoint two outstanding postdoctoral candidates.
Date added: Friday, November 24, 2023