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Didcot Cafe Scientifique – Dr Chris Pearson, Exoplanets and Alien Worlds
September 17 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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Dr Chris Pearson is head of Astronomy at RAL Space on Harwell Campus. His PhD was in “Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology” with Prof. Michael Rowan-Robinson at Imperial College, London, and has worked on large galaxy surveys for both ground-based telescopes and space-borne missions.
He worked for 7 years in Japan on the AKARI space telescope before moving to the UK to RAL Space to work on the SPIRE instrument on the Herschel Space Observatory where he led the team that produced all the nice images from the mission.
He now works on the ARIEL mission searching for exoplanets and the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope, the largest scientific facility ever to be built.
Venue: Cornerstone Arts Centre, 25 Station Road, Didcot, OX11 7NE
Date: Tuesday 17 September 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
