£1.048 million STFC grant for Keele Astrophysics Group

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Posted on 17 February 2012

Keele's Astrophysics Group has won a major new Science and Technology Facilities Council grant of £1,048,698.

The grant will fund three Post-Doctoral Research Associates, working on:

  1. A study of winds from supermassive black-holes in distant galaxies, led by Dr James Reeves, pictured, based on 1,500 hours of time won competitively on major international facilities, such as the satellites Chandra, XMM and Suzaku.
  2. A large survey of star-formation regions and young stellar clusters in our galaxy, led by Professor Rob Jeffries, based on 300 nights of time on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile.
  3. The WASP search for extrasolar planets, led by Professor Coel Hellier, extending the WASP-South survey, currently the world's most successful search for transiting exoplanets.

Of the 15 UK astrophysics groups renewing their grants in this round at a time of reduced STFC budgets, Keele was the only group that did not have a reduction in PDRAs awarded.

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