Infrared Astronomy - Seeing the Heat

Dr David L Clements is a Senior Lecturer in the Physics Department of ImperialCollege London. He has a degree in physics and a PhD in astrophysics fromImperial College. He has worked at Oxford University, The European SouthernObservatory Headquarters, near Munich, the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale,near Paris, and at Cardiff University. His research is in the broad areas ofextragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology, specialising in studies ofdust in galaxies and the role that dusty galaxies play in galaxy formation andevolution. He has worked on the Herschel and Planck missions as Manager ofthe London Planck Analysis Centre, and head of the Herschel Data Processingand Science Analysis Software Centre London. As an infrared astronomer hehas used data from all the major infrared satellite missions, from IRAS to Herschel,and many ground based telescopes. He is the author of over 200 scientificpapers and also writes science fiction stories and popular science articles, whichhave been published in Analog, Nature Futures and Astronomy Now amongothers. His blog can be found at http://davecl.wordpress.com, which alsohosts material associated with this book, and on twitter at @davecl42. Thisis his first book.