!!Martin Rees - Curriculum vitae

__Degrees:__
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*1963	BA (Mathematics) Trinity College, Cambridge
*1967	MA, Ph.D
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__Currently:__
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*2012	Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
*1995-	Astronomer Royal
*2001- 	Honorary Professor: Imperial College, London and Leicester University
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__Previous Jobs:__
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*1968	Research Fellow, Caltech
*1967-69	Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge
*1967-72	Staff member, Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Cambridge
*1969-72	Senior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge
*1969-70	Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
*Spring 1971	Visiting Associate Professor, Caltech
*1972, 1988-89	Visiting Professor, Harvard University
*1972-73	Professor, Sussex University
*1976-77	Gresham Professor of Astronomy
*1982, 1996, 1997 	Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
*Jan-June 1984	Joint Coordinator of programme on galaxy formation, etc. at Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara
*1984-88	Regents Visiting Fellow of Smithsonian Institution
*1973-91	Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, Cambridge University
*Spring 1995	JSPS visitor, Kyoto University
*1977-82 and 1987-91	Director, Institute of Astronomy
*1973-91	Professorial Fellow, King's College, Cambridge
*1992-2003	Royal Society Professor at Cambridge University
*1992-2003	Official Fellow King's College, Cambridge
*2002-2009	Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, Cambridge
*2004-2012	Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
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__Society and Academy Memberships:__
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*1975	Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
*1979	Fellow of Royal Society
*1981	Fellow of Institute of Physics (Honorary Fellow 2001- )
*1982	Foreign Associate: National Academy of Sciences (USA)
*1989	Member of Academia Europaea
*1989-99	Fellow of Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
*1990	Member of Pontifical Academy of Sciences
*1990	Honorary Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences
*1993	Foreign Member: American Philosophical Society
*1993	Foreign Member: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
*1994	Honorary Member: Russian Academy of Sciences
*1996	Honorary Member: Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
*1996	Foreign Member, Academia Lincei
*1998	Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
*2001	Honorary Fellow of British Association
*2003	Foreign Member Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters
*2007	Honorary Fellow: Royal Academy of Engineering
*2007	Associate Fellow: T W A S
*2012	Honorary Fellow: Academy of Medical Sciences
*2012	Foreign Member: Turkish Academy of Sciences
*2012	Honorary Fellow: British Academy
*2014	Foreign Member: Japan Academy
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__Awards and honours:__
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*1975	H. P. Robertson Award & Lectureship (Nat. Acad. Sci.)
*1982	Hopkins Prize (Cam. Phil. Soc.)
*1984	Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (A.I.P.)
*1986	Bappu Memorial Award of Indian Nat. Sci. Acad.
*1987	Gold Medal of Royal Astron. Soc
*1989	Guthrie Medal and Prize. Inst. of Physics (UK)
*1989	Karl Schwarzschild Award of Astronomische Gesellschaft
*1989	Balzan Prize
*1990	Robinson Prize for Cosmology
*1991	Officier dans I'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
*1992	Knight Batchelor
*1993	Bruce Medal, Astr. Soc. Pacific
*1996	Science writing award. American Institute of Physics
*1998	Bower Prize and Award for Science, Franklin Institute
*2000	Golden Plate Award, International Academy of Achievement
*2000	Rossi prize (AAS)
*2001 	Cosmology Prize, Gruber Foundation
*2003 	Einstein Award of World Cultural Council
*2004 	Descartes Prize (member of winning collaboration)
*2004 	Faraday Award (Roy Soc)
*2005 	Crafoord Prize (Royal Swedish Academy)
*2005	Life Peerage
*2005 	Niels Bohr Medal (UNESCO)
*2007 	Order of Merit
*2011 	Templeton Prize
*2012	Newton Prize (Institute of Physics)
*2013	Paczynski Medal (Warsaw)
*2013	Dirac Medal and Prize (ICTP)
*2015	Nierenberg Prize (Scripps Institute)
*2015	Order of the Rising Sun (Gold and Silver Star) (Japan)
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__Hon. DSc.__
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*Sussex (1990), Leicester (1993), Copenhagen (1995), Keele (1995), Uppsala (1995), Newcastle (1995), Toronto (1996), Durham (1999), Oxford (2000), Ohio (2006), Exeter (2006), Hull (2007), Yale (2008), Open University (2008), Liverpool (2008), King's College, London (2008), McMaster (2009), East Anglia (2009), Melbourne (2010), Portsmouth (2011), Sydney (2012), ETH Zurich (2012), Cambridge (2014), Greenwich (2014)
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__Hon. D. Litt__ 	
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*University of London (2011), University of Bath (2015)
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__Hon. Fellow__
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*Cardiff University (1998),Trinity College, Cambridge (1995), Jesus College, Cambridge (1996), Darwin College, Cambridge (2004), King's College, Cambridge (2007), John Moores University, Liverpool (2008), Isaac Newton Institute (2012), City and Guilds (2012), Science Museum (2013)
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__Committees__
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*1992-94	President, Royal Astronomical Society (Council member 1972-75)
*1995-96 	President, British Association for the Advancement of Science (Council 1994-01)
*1996-02	Trustee of British Museum
*1998-	Trustee of Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
*1998-01	Trustee of NESTA
*1999-04	Trustee: Kennedy Memorial Trust (UK)
*1997-	President: British Physics Olympiad Committee
*1998-07	Chairman: Victor Rothschild Memorial Trust
*2001-08	Trustee: Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)
*2003-11	Trustee: National Museum of Science and Industry
*2004-	Council: Foundation for Science and Technology
*2004-12	Governor: Westminster School
*2005-	Trustee: Gates Trust
*2005-10 	President Royal Society (Council member 1983-5 and 1993-5)
*2006-	Board Member: Science, Technology and Society Forum (Kyoto)
*2008-09	Council Member: Royal Institution
*2008-13	Governing Board, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
*2012-13	President: Association for Science Education
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__Other previous external academic activities__
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*IAU:	President of Commission on High Energy Astrophysics (No. 48) (1973-76); organising committee, commissions 47, 51. Special nominating committee (1994- )
*ESRO/ESA: Member of various committees and panels, Chairman of Scientific Advisory Committee (1976-78)
*EPS:	Board member (and first secretary) of Astronomy and Astrophysics Division
*SERC/PPARC	Member of various committees and panels; member ASR Board (1977-80), PPARC Council (1994-1997)
*EU:	CODEST Physics Panel (1992-94)
*BNSC:	Science Board (1986-88)
*COPUS:	Member (1995-00)
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Member of editorial boards for Reviews of Modern Physics, Oxford Monographs in Physics, Contemporary Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics Reviews, Physics World, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and other journals.
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Have directed 6 NATO-sponsored Advanced Study Institutes, and been involved in organisation of many conferences, summer schools, etc. Frequent contributions to UK and foreign radio and TV programmes on science, technology and education. TV series for Channel 4 shown in 2004.
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Visiting Committee Max Planck Institute, Munich, (1976-88), BBC Science Consultative Committee (1984-88) Advisory Committees for Indian Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (1989-92), SISSA, Trieste (1992-6), Niels Bohr Institute (1993-6), IAC, Spain (1995-7), NOVA (Holland) (2000-4) and Caltech Physical Sciences (2000), Committee for Exhibition of 1851 (2002-5), (also numerous 'ad hoc' visiting/advisory committees in UK and overseas).
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__Current and recent advisory boards__
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*Oxford Martin School
*Grantham Institute (IC and LSE)
*Ditchley Foundation (Hon. Governor)
*Santa Fe Institute
*ICTP Salam Institute
*NTU Singapore (Complexity Programme)
*Life Stories (British Library)
*Pontifical Academy of Sciences (Council)
*House of Lords S & T Committee
*Samuel Johnson Book Prize (Chair of Judges)
*Oxford Martin Commission on future generations
*BASIC commission on nuclear weapons
*Anniversary Longitude Prize Advisory Board (Chair)
*Breakthrough "Listen" project board (Chair)
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__Special Lectures__
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*1972	Kelvin Lecturer (British Association)
*1975	Lindsay Memorial Lecturer (NASA, Washington)
*1975	H.P. Robertson Memorial Lecturer (Nat. Acad.Sci.)
*1976-77 	Gresham Lecturer (London)
*1976	George Darwin Lecturer (R.A.S)
*1978	Halley Lecturer (Oxford)
*1979	Tyndall Lecturer (Bristol)
*1979	Larmor Lecturer (Cam. Phil. Soc.)
*1979	Tolansky Lecturer (Roy. Soc. Arts)
*1980	Tizard Lecturer (Westminster)
*1980	Loeb Lecturer (Harvard)
*1980	Milne Lecturer (Oxford)
*1981	"Distinguished Lecturer" (U. of Alberta)
*1981	Jansky Lecturer (NRAO, USA)
*1982	Lockyer Memorial Lecturer (Exeter)
*1982	Behr Lecturer (Pittsburgh U./Carnegie Mellon U.)
*1982	Redman Lecturer (McMaster U.)
*1982	Bakerian Lecturer (Royal Society)
*1982	Miller Lecturer (Illinois)
*1983	Marlar Lecturer (UCSD)
*1984	Danz Lecturer (U. of Washington)
*1984	Bunyan Lecturer (Stanford U.)
*1984	Ida Beam Visiting Professor (U. of Iowa)
*1984	Clark Lecturer (Glasgow U.)
*1986	Sackler Lecturer (Tel Aviv)
*1987	Hubble Lecturer (Space Telescope Inst. Baltimore)
*1987	Lauritsen Lecturer (Caltech)
*1988	Invited discourse (IAU General Assembly)
*1989	Schwarzschild Lecturer (Astronomische Gesellschaft)
*1990	Gold Lecturer (Cornell)
*1991	Celsius Lecturer (Uppsala)
*1992	Lezioni Lincee (Accademia Lincei, Rome/Milan)
*1994	Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professor (UBC)
*1995	Hitchcock Visiting Professor (UC Berkeley)
*1995	Delphasus Lecturer (UC Santa Cruz)
*1995	Marker Lecturer (Pennsylvania State U)
*1996	Schiaparelli Lecturer (Accademia Lincei)
*1997	Sackler Lecturer (Toronto)
*1997	Royal Palace Symposium speaker (Amsterdam)
*1998	Rutherford/Canada Lecturer (Royal Society)
*1998	Mautner Lecturer (U C Los Angeles)
*1998	Hays Lecturer (Pittsburgh)
*1998	Rossi Lecturer (Florence)
*1999	Pauli Lecturer (ETH, Zurich)
*1999	"Distinguished" Lecturer (U Victoria and DAO, Canada)
*1999	Leverhulme Lecturer (Liverpool)
*2000	Scribner Lecturer (Princeton)
*2000	Gamow Memorial Lecturer (Colorado U)
*2000	Larmor Lecturer (Belfast)
*2001 	Brickwedde Lecturer (Johns Hopkins U)
*2001 	John Darius Lecturer (Science Museum)
*2001 	Centenary Lecture Series (City of Melbourne)
*2001 	McCrea Lecturer (Royal Irish Academy)
*2002 	Grubb Parsons Lecturer (Durham)
*2002 	Oskar Klein Lecturer (Stockholm)
*2003 	Petrie Lecturer (RAS Canada)
*2003 	Simonyi Lecturer (Oxford)
*2003 	Ove Nathan Lecturer (Danish Academy)
*2003 	Wu Lecturer (U Michigan)
*2003 	Johnson Lecturer (National Maritime Museum)
*2004 	Gresham Mansion House Lecturer (London)
*2004 	Russell Lecturer (Amer. Astron. Soc.)
*2005 	Faraday Lecturer (Royal Soc)
*2005 	Messenger Lecturer (Cornell U)
*2005 	Oppenheimer Lecturer (UC Berkeley)
*2006 	Chatham Lecturer (Oxford)
*2006 	Foster Lecturer (London)
*2006 	Queen's Lecturer (Berlin)
*2007 	Gifford Lecturer (St Andrews)
*2007 	Blackett Memorial Lecturer (Delhi)
*2007 	Rajiv Gandhi Lecturer (Bangalore)
*2007 	Pardee Lecturer (Boston University)
*2007 	Caird Medal Lecture (National Maritime Museum)
*2008 	Reimar Lust Lecture (MPG)
*2008 	Wolfson Haldane Lecture (Oxford)
*2008 	Aurelio Peccei Lecture (Rome)
*2008 	Ditchley Lecture
*2008 	Roscoe Lecture (Liverpool)
*2008 	Athenaeum Lecture
*2009 	James Martin Lecture (Oxford)
*2009 	Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor Lectures (Singapore)
*2009 	Hon. Fellowship Lecture (Cam Phil Soc)
*2009 	Lord Speaker's Lecture (House of Lords)
*2010 	Rutherford Lectures (Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand)
*2010 	Derek Denton Lecture (Melbourne, Australia)
*2010 	Reith Lectures (BBC)
*2010 	Lewis Thomas Lecture (Rockefeller University)
*2010 	Cockcroft-Rutherford Lecture (Manchester)
*2011 	Kohn Lecture (Imperial College)
*2011 	Beyond Lecture (Arizona)
*2011 	Benson Lecture (Chicago)
*2011 	Barringer Lecture (Nat Hist Mus)
*2011 	Erasmus Darwin Lecture (Lichfield)
*2011 	Templeton Lecture (San Francisco)
*2011 	"Distinguished" Lecture (Nottingham)
*2011 	Romanes Lecture (Oxford)
*2011 	Dennis Sciama Lecture (Oxford and Trieste)
*2012	Founders Day Lecture (Bath)
*2012	Dalton Lecture (Manchester)
*2012	Haldane Lecture (Leicester)
*2012	Menelaus Memorial Lecture (Cardiff)
*2012	Morgan-Botti Lecture (Cardiff)
*2012	Forum Lecture (UC Santa Cruz)
*2012	Foundation Lecture (Sydney)
*2012	Wall Exchange Lecture (Vancouver)
*2012 	Statutory Public Lecture (IAS Dublin)
*2012 	J L Synge Memorial Lecture (T C Dublin)
*2012 	Natural History Museum Annual Lecture (London)
*2012 	Millar Lecture (RSA)
*2013	Kelvin Lecture (Royal Phil. Soc. Glasgow)
*2013	Williams Lecture (Brown University)
*2013	Newton Lecture (Institute of Physics)
*2013	Paczynski Lecture (Polish Astronomical Society)
*2014	Roy Soc/Amer Acad. Lecture (Carnegie Institution, Washington) Society)
*2014	Science Policy Lecture (Harvard, Kennedy School)
*2014	Christmas Lecture (BAA)
*2014	Crafoord Lecture (Lund)
*2014	De Waal Lecture (Groningen)
*2015	James Martin Lecture (Oxford)
*2015	CARA lecture
*2016	Nierenberg Lecture (Scripps Institute)
*2016	Lindsey Memorial Lecture (Imperial College)
*2016	Erasmus Lecture (Academia Europaea)