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Sited next to the Kavli Institute for Cosmology and the Institute of Astronomy, the Centre will establish a global reputation as a world class centre of research excellence in all aspects of astrophysics and cosmology, which will attract the very best scholars and young scientists from around the world. Managing Director of main contractor SDC, Francis Shiner, welcomed guests to the event including Guest of Honour Mr Humphrey Battcock whose substantial philanthropic gift, together with a grant from the Wolfson Foundation, have made the project possible Construction of the Centre will bring together all the experimental, observational and theoretical astronomers in Cambridge on a single site for the first time. The Centre will house around 12 faculty, and 50 post-doctoral researchers and graduate students. Bringing together expertise at all levels will create a lively research environment that will feed directly into the teaching programme. The new Centre will be principally dedicated to astrophysical and instrumentation activities which complement the work being conducted at the Kavli Institute. The opening of the Centre will be coordinated with the launch of a major new initiative to make Cambridge a world-leading centre for extrasolar planet and astrobiological research. Professor James Stirling CBE FRS, Head of the Cavendish Laboratory and Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, said: ”The very generous gifts by Humphrey Battcock and the Wolfson Foundation have enabled the Cavendish Laboratory to begin the next stage of its redevelopment and at the same time bring to fruition the vision of consolidating on a single site the enormous strength of Cambridge Astrophysics and Cosmology.
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