Professor Coel Hellier co-investigator on multi-million dollar survey

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Posted on 08 April 2013

Professor Coel Hellier of Keele's Astrophysics Group is a co-investigator on a major new grant for 4.83 million dollars awarded by the Qatar National Research Fund. 

The grant will develop the Qatar Exoplanet Survey into a major international collaboration with new survey facilities looking for transiting extrasolar planets. While most of the money will be spent internationally, with little coming to the UK, Professor Hellier brings to the team experience and expertise developed through the WASP project.
 
This grant is also significant for the development of scientific research in Qatar and the surrounding region.

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