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University of Cambridge. University of Durham.
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Richard Massey
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Previously he was a senior research fellow in astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology and Science & Technology Facilities Council Advanced Fellow at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Edinburgh. He attended Queen Mary"s Grammar School, graduated in Maths and Physics from the University of Durham and completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Cambridge in 2003. Massey is most well known for his studies of dark matter, including the first 3D map of its large-scale distribution and its behaviour during collisions.
He was awarded the 2011 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
He has featured in several television documentaries, including British Broadcasting Corporation"s Horizon documentary "How Big is the Universe?" in 2013 and online.
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