CEPSAR
This new interdisciplinary centre brings together world-class researchers from three different Open University departments:
Earth & Environmental Sciences, the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute (PSSRI), and Astronomy Research in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The Centre studies the origins, systems and processes with respect to the evolution and chemistry of materials that form the stars and planetary bodies, the processes and natural systems that shape the environment of their habitable world now and in the past, and the essential properties of a Solar System that allows life to develop on one of its planets.
The Centre provides an enthusiastic and integrated research culture, forging collaborative alliances across disciplines, and is committed to international research leadership. The research interests of Astronomy Research include multiwavelength observations and theoretical investigations of compact interacting binary stars; the formation and chemical evolution of the Galaxy and the chemical elements; the detection of extrasolar planets and computer studies of the orbital evolution of known exoplanetary systems. Research in Earth Sciences has the goal of understanding aspects of the Earth System. PSSRI is a prolific scientific research institute, with involvement in many past and forthcoming Solar System exploration missions as well as first class analytical and environmental simulation facilities for the investigation of extra-terrestrial materials and processes.
For more information, please visit http://cepsar.open.ac.uk