University College London (UCL)

Website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/star

Coordinator: Filipe Abdalla

Members: Niall Jeffrey, Bruno Moraes

One of the largest astrophysics groups in the UK, comprising about 90 members of academic, research and support staff. Research areas cover massive stars, star formation, interstellar and circumstellar processes, astrochemistry, cosmology, galaxy formation and evolution, extra-solar planets, atmospheric physics and instrumentation. An overview of the group's research can be found in the most recent Departmental Annual Review. Group members are also playing leadership roles in many international projects, covering a time line from the present to 2030 or so. They include the Dark Energy Survey, DESI, Euclid, LSST, the Hubble Space Telescope, JWST, SPICA, Cassini, Laplace / JUICE, Ariel, LOFAR, Planck, Herschel, e-MERLIN, ALMA and SKA.