Education
Diamond was educated at the University of Leeds ( Bachelor of Science 1979) and the University of Manchester where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Radio astronomy in 1982 for work on MERLIN and Ohio/International Rectifier stars.
Diamond was educated at the University of Leeds ( Bachelor of Science 1979) and the University of Manchester where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Radio astronomy in 1982 for work on MERLIN and Ohio/International Rectifier stars.
He was the director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics from 1 October 2006 until 2010. He was the Chief of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation"s Astronomy and Space Sciences Division from 1 June 2010 and in October 2012 he left Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation to become the Director General of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation. Diamond"s research focuses on astrophysical masers.