This week in UK&I in brief: UK astronomer to lead world’s biggest telescope; Scottish universities join Max Planck partnership; MPs want more focused low-carbon R&D with China; Roche chief moves to AstraZeneca; Irish research funding body looks at strategy; UK needs £3m to stay in hunt for dark matter.
UK astronomer to lead world’s biggest telescope
UK astronomer Philip Diamond has been appointed as the first permanent director-general of the Square Kilometre Array—the world’s biggest and most sensitive radio telescope. Diamond, currently working in Australia as head of Astronomy and Space Science at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, will move to the UK in October to take up the role.
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