Staff profile
Overview
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Dr Nigel Metcalfe
Assistant Professor
| Affiliation | Telephone |
|---|---|
| Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics | +44 (0) 191 33 43566 |
| Assistant Professor in the Institute for Computational Cosmology | +44 (0) 191 33 43566 |
Biography
Responsibilities within department
Member of the Laboratories Committee. Administration and Teaching database design, development and maintenance (mysql and php scripting). Physics computer classroom coordinator.
Teaching activity
Tutor on the Level 3 Problem Solving Computing Course. Level 4 project supervisor. Academic adviser.
Research interests
Deep galaxy counts and clustering and their interpretation in light of current theories of galaxy evolution and cosmology. I am chair of the Data Reduction and Verification Group (DRAVG) for the Pan-STARRS project. I am also part of the VST Atlas Survey team, and the DESI Imaging Validation working group.