KICC overview KICC members KICC Annual Reports The Kavli Institute Fellowships Scientific Publications Astronomy in Cambridge Directions Local Information Summer Student Enquiries Information for newcomers Support KICC

Research Themes

Research Themes overview Large Scale Structure and Precision Cosmology Epoch of Cosmic Reionization Evolution of the Intergalactic Medium Nature of Dark Matter Gravitational Waves Search and characterisation of Exoplanets

Cosmic Microwave Background and the Early Universe

Cosmic Microwave Background and the Early Universe overview CMB frequency spectrum Ending Inflation Component separation and the Planck maps CMB power spectra, likelihood, and cosmological parameters CMB lensing

Formation and Evolution of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes

Formation and Evolution of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes overview Observation of the most distant galaxies AGN in dwarf galaxies Dwarf galaxy formation with cosmic rays, radiation and magnetic fields Gaseous haloes and the circumgalactic medium The origin and role of magnetism in galaxies Simulating AGN jets Multiphase gas in the centre of galaxy clusters Morphologies of supermassive black hole merger hosts and multimessenger signatures

Projects

Projects overview AION ALMA ANDES DES DESI Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) FABLE Illustris JWST KLEVER LSST Manga MOONS Planck REACH SKA Simons Observatory WEAVE

News

News overview Gallery: KICC 10th Anniversary Symposium Gallery: KICC 10th Anniversary Celebration Day Gallery: Kavli Foundation Board of Directors visit Gallery: Kavli Foundation President and CEO visit

Events

Events overview WST UK Community Workshop Bridging Scales at Cosmic Dawn and Reionization Kavli Astrophysics Symposium 2026 Kavli Lectures KICC New Frontiers Past Events

Kavli Science Focus Meetings

Kavli Science Focus Meetings overview Panta rhei: the moving, varying sky of Gaia DR4 Agentic Workflows in Astronomy and Beyond KICC Welcome Day 2026 Ordo ab Chao: Star formation and chemistry from z>10 to local relics Cosmology in the Lab Galaxies and the 21-cm Frontier 'Le rouge et le noir’ Cosmic Fireworks: A Cambridge Extragalactic Transients Workshop Introduction to KICC 2025 CamGW CamGW: Launching the Next Phase of GW Science in Cambridge Future of SED Modelling Introduction to KICC 2024 Cosmological Inference in High Dimension Dark Matter in Astrophysical Laboratories Confronting tSZ simulations and observations Introduction to KICC 2022 Science with the 21-cm line The Milky Way and its high-redshift progenitors in theory and observations Introduction to KICC 2023 Astrostatistics and Astro-Machine Learning A multi-scale view of the Epoch of Reionisation Next generation surveys in the Rubin-LSST era 2022 Mini Symposium Baryons and Cosmology Kavli Science Focus Meeting - The Early Universe Kavli Science Focus Meeting - Feedback in and around galaxies CMB component separation

Observational and Theoretical 21-cm Cosmology

Observational and Theoretical 21-cm Cosmology overview Photos

Vacancies

Current job vacancies Closed Vacancies

PhD Positions

PhD Positions overview Kavli-Newnham Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Postgraduate Studentships

Outreach

Outreach overview Working with schools Project 'Astro East' Cambridge LaunchPad Touch Astro Universe Unravelled Contact Kavli Outreach

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