Dr David L Clements is a Senior Lecturer in the Physics Department of Imperial
College London. He has a degree in physics and a PhD in astrophysics from
Imperial College. He has worked at Oxford University, The European Southern
Observatory Headquarters, near Munich, the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale,
near Paris, and at Cardiff University. His research is in the broad areas of
extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology, specialising in studies of
dust in galaxies and the role that dusty galaxies play in galaxy formation and
evolution. He has worked on the Herschel and Planck missions as Manager of
the London Planck Analysis Centre, and head of the Herschel Data Processing
and Science Analysis Software Centre London. As an infrared astronomer he
has used data from all the major infrared satellite missions, from IRAS to Herschel,
and many ground based telescopes. He is the author of over 200 scientific
papers and also writes science fiction stories and popular science articles, which
have been published in Analog, Nature Futures and Astronomy Now among
others. His blog can be found at http://davecl.wordpress.com, which also
hosts material associated with this book, and on twitter at @davecl42. This
is his first book. |
