Prof Peter Coles
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Biography
I am a theoretical astrophysicist and my research is in the area of cosmology and the large-scale structure of the Universe. For further details about my research, click the `Research' tab.
I was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in England and educated at its Royal Grammar School. After that I went to Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge to study Natural Sciences, eventually specializing in Theoretical Physics. After graduation I started a doctorate in the Astronomy Centre at the University of Sussex under the supervision of Prof. John D Barrow. After completing my DPhil in 1988, I stayed for two years in Sussex as a postdoctoral research fellow. I then moved to London, where I held a number of positions in the School of Mathematical Sciences at what is now Queen Mary, University of London. I was awarded an SERC Advanced Fellowship in 1993 which I held for five years during which I was promoted to the position of Reader.
In 1998 I was appointed Professor of Astrophysics in the School of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Nottingham, a position I took up on 1st January 1999. I helped set up an Astronomy group there, and stayed about eight years in Nottingham until, in 2007, I moved to a position as Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University. From February 2013 until the end of July 2016 I was Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex In 2016 I returned to Cardiff in a part-time capacity split between the School of Physics & Astronomy and the Data Innovation Research Institute. In 2017 decided to move to Ireland to take up my current position at Maynooth.
Research Interests
Book
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Aoibhinn Gallagher and Peter Coles (2022) 'Evolution of Cosmic Voids in the Schrödinger-Poisson Formalism'. The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 5 . [Link] https://doi.org/10.21105/astro.2208.13851 | |
2022 | Mark N Brook and Peter Coles (2022) 'Gravitational Stability of Vortices in Bose-Einstein Condensate Dark Matter'. The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 5 . [Link] https://doi.org/10.21105/astro.0902.0605 [Full-Text] | |
2019 | Coles, P. (2019) 'A revolution in science: the eclipse expeditions of 1919'. Contemporary Physics, 60 . [Link] [DOI] | |
2017 | Munshi, D.; Coles, P. (2017) 'The integrated bispectrum and beyond'. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2017 (2). [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Gosenca, M; Coles, P (2016) 'Dynamical Analysis of Scalar Field Cosmologies with Spatial Curvature'. The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 1 (1). [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Munshi, D.; Pratten, G.; Valageas, P.; Coles, P.; Brax, P. (2016) 'Galaxy clustering in 3D and modified gravity theories'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 456 (2):1627-1644. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Munshi, D.; Hu, B.; Matsubara, T.; Coles, P.; Heavens, A.F. (2016) 'Lensing-induced morphology changes in CMB temperature maps in modified gravity theories'. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, (4). [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Munshi, D.; Iliev, I. T.; Dixon, K. L.; Coles, P. (2016) 'Extracting the late-time kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 463 (3):2425-2442. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2015 | Harnois-Déraps, J.; Munshi, D.; Valageas, P.; van Waerbeke, L.; Brax, P.; Coles, P.; Rizzo, L. (2015) 'Testing modified gravity with cosmic shear'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 454 (3):2722-2735. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Munshi, D.; Hu, B.; Renzi, A.; Heavens, A.F.; Coles, P. (2014) 'Probing modified gravity theories with ISW and CMB lensing'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 442 (1):821-837. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Munshi, D.; Coles, P.; Kilbinger, M. (2014) 'Tomography and weak lensing statistics'. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014 (4). [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Munshi, D; Joudaki, S; Coles, P; Smidt, J; Kay, S.T. (2014) 'Cross-correlating Sunyaev-Zel'dovich and weak lensing maps'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 442 (1):69-91. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Munshi, D.; Corasaniti, P. S.; Coles, P.; Heavens, A.F. Pandolfi, S. (2014) 'Reionization and CMB non-Gaussianity'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 442 (4):3427-3442. [DOI] [Full-Text] |
Other Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Peter Coles (2021) 'Obituary: John David Barrow (1952-2020)' The Observatory, 141 (1281) :93-96. | |
2019 | Peter Coles (2019) 'Einstein, Eddington and the 1919 eclipse' Nature, 568 :306-307. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01172-z | |
2017 | Coles, P. (2017) 'Building baby universes' Physics World, 30 (8) :34-35. [DOI] | |
2014 | Coles, P. (2014) 'Planck Perspectives' Physics World, 27 (1) :24-30. [DOI] |
Book Review
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | Peter Coles (2019) Data Analysis for Scientists and Engineers by Edward L. Robinson. Singapore: [Book Review] [Link] http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S2251171719800011 |
Electronic Publication
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | Peter Coles (2019) How Albert Einstein became a household name 100 years ago. [Electronic Publication] [Link] |