Moore develops novel Bayesian data-analysis techniques for gravitational-wave time-series data from merging black hole binaries, using these signals to probe astrophysics and fundamental physics, including tests of general relativity and constraints from future space-based (LISA) observations.

Oswald applies modern data-driven and machine-learning techniques to enormous datasets from large pulsar surveys (Parkes Young Pulsar Array, MeerKAT Thousand-Pulsar-Array) to understand pulsar radio emission mechanisms, polarization behaviour and the structure of the Galactic magnetic field.

Parry designs and builds multi-object and integral-field near-infrared spectrographs for ground-based telescopes (CIRPASS, SMIRFS, MOONS) and is currently developing concepts for unfolding space telescopes and instruments to search for exoplanet biosignatures.

Queloz (2019 Nobel Prize, co-discoverer of 51 Peg b) leads exoplanet research at Cambridge, including precision radial velocity spectrograph development and transit photometry. He chairs the CHEOPS space mission science team and is founding director of the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe at Cambridge. Research focuses on characterizing transiting terrestrial planets (especially around M dwarfs including TRAPPIST-1) and atmospheric biosignature detection with JWST-era instruments. Part-time appointment at University of Geneva.

Rao's group uses ultrafast (sub-20 fs) transient absorption and vibronic spectroscopy to study quantum-coherent energy and charge transfer processes in molecular and nanoscale semiconductor systems, most notably the quantum-coherent mechanism of singlet exciton fission, with applications to next-generation photovoltaics.

Rimmer's Planetary Astrochemistry Lab experimentally simulates planetary atmospheric, aqueous and surface chemistry to measure reaction rate constants relevant to prebiotic chemistry, using the custom-built StarLab UV photochemistry simulator to reproduce the light of young stars, in order to constrain which planets and moons are most likely to host the chemical pathways to life.

Sapienza's Integrated Quantum Photonics group studies quantum optics on a chip, developing nanophotonic devices that integrate solid-state single-photon emitters (III-V quantum dots) with photonic crystal and plasmonic cavities, alongside investigations of quantum effects in biomolecules.

Schneider leads the Many-Body Quantum Dynamics group. His primary work is on optical lattice quantum simulation with ultracold atoms (quasicrystalline and kagome potentials, non-equilibrium dynamics), but he also co-leads a significant quantum sensing arm: he is a core Cambridge PI in the AION collaboration building a 10 m strontium single-photon atom interferometer at Oxford and contributing to MAGIS-100 at Fermilab, targeting mid-band gravitational wave detection and ultralight dark matter. In 2026 he co-leads the UKRI-funded SEQUIN project, a hybrid quantum-classical interferometer array combining atom interferometry with seismometers to probe gravitational waves and Earth's interior.

Tacchella studies the physics of galaxy and black hole formation and evolution across cosmic time, combining analytical and cosmological models with cutting-edge multi-wavelength data, and plays a leading role in JWST/NIRCam observations characterising the earliest galaxies.

Wyatt studies the structure, composition and dynamical evolution of circumstellar debris discs (using ALMA, Herschel and JWST imaging) as tracers of hidden planetary systems, linking dust production, planetesimal collisions and planet-disc interactions to the broader picture of planet formation.