Dr Nigel Metcalfe

Department of Physics
Durham University
Science Laboratories
South Road
Durham DH1 3LE
0191 3343566

nigel.metcalfe@durham.ac.uk
My departmental web page

The World Machine: Pan-STARRS on Durham Cathedral

My Work Other stuff

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Durham University.
As of Oct 2023 I am now semi-retired and only work one day a week

I have been a professional astrophysicist and a member of the Extragalactic & Cosmology Group and the Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) at Durham for ~40 years, mainly specializing in imaging faint galaxies. Before that I took a degree in Physics, followed by a DPhil in Astrophysics, at Merton College, Oxford.

My Work

I was on the Science Council for the Pan-STARRS project, and chair of their Data Reducation Analysis and Verification Group. I was awarded 'Builder' status on the project in April 2013. I am also heavily involved in the ESO VST Atlas survey, and was a member of the DESI Image Validation Group for several years.

Other stuff

Learned astronomers in disucssion (?)

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