This artist's impression shows a gas-giant exoplanet transiting across the face of its star. Infrared analysis by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA
I am delighted to be moving to Cambridge. It is a real honour for me to join a University which has been the home and source of inspiration to so many great scientists." - —Professor Didier Queloz One of Europe's top experts on exoplanets, planets located beyond the Solar System, will be joining the University's Department of Physics. The world-leading astrophysicist Didier Queloz has been appointed to the post of Professor of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory. Queloz said: "I am delighted to be moving to Cambridge. It is a real honour for me to join a University which has been the home and source of inspiration to so many great scientists. Extra-solar system planets, or exoplanets, were first detected by Queloz and his colleague Michel Mayor in 1995. Since then, more than 800 exoplanets have been discovered.
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