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Martin Rees is a Professor and Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University. He holds the honorary title of Astronomer Royal and also
Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and at Leicester University.
In 2005 he was appointed to the House of Lords and elected President of the Royal Society.
He held post-doctoral positions in the UK and the USA, before becoming a professor at Sussex University. He then became a professor at Cambridge and Director of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy.
He has received numerous international awards for his research and is a member of numerous foreign academies. He has been president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1994-95) and the Royal Astronomical Society (1992-94) and a trustee of the British Museum, NESTA and the Kennedy Memorial Trust. He is currently on the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of Science and Industry, the IPPR, the Gates Cambridge Trust, and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.
Apart from his research publications, and many general articles, he is the author of seven books. He has broadcast and lectured widely has served on many bodies connected with education, space research, arms control and international collaboration in science.