Peter Coles was born on 1963 and is a theoretical cosmologist at Maynooth University.
15 Facts About Peter Coles
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Peter Coles studied for his PhD from 1985 to 1988, subsequently becoming a postdoctoral researcher at Sussex and Queen Mary, subsequently becoming a lecturer there.
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Peter Coles was a professor at Cardiff University starting in 2007, and from 2013 he was the head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex.
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Peter Coles did his first degree at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in Natural Sciences, specialising in Theoretical Physics.
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Peter Coles enjoys a wide range of music, especially classical and jazz and he listens to Radio 3, but he does not like the sound produced by harpsichords.
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Peter Coles has been a cosmologist and theoretical astrophysicist since 1985.
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Peter Coles then worked at the University of Nottingham between 1999 and 2007 as a professor of astrophysics, where he set up a new group in astronomy.
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Peter Coles was a professor of theoretical astrophysics at Cardiff University from 2007 to 2013, and was the deputy head of the school of physics and astronomy.
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Peter Coles left the University of Sussex in 2016 to return to Cardiff to hold a joint position with the school of physics and astronomy and the Data Innovation Research Institute.
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Peter Coles became head of the Department of Theoretical Physics on 1 September 2019.
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Peter Coles was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and of the Institute of Physics, but resigned from both in 2024 due to their use of high article processing charges for their gold open access journals.
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Peter Coles has served on the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Peter Coles has taught undergraduate courses in mathematics, statistics, and astronomy.
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Peter Coles is the only Irish-based member of the Euclid collaboration, where he studies the clustering of galaxies.
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Peter Coles has a blog named In the Dark, where he writes under the name Telescoper, covering a range of topics including astronomy, science funding, opera, jazz, rugby and crosswords.