ESCAPE - The European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle Physics ESFRI Research Infrastructures has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 824064.
Hugh Dickinson is a lecturer in astronomy at the Open University in the UK. After an early career as a VHE gamma ray astronomer, Hugh now studies the formation and evolution of distant galaxies using optical and near-infrared telescope data. To enable this research, Hugh has helped to develop and manage several successful citizen science projects including Muon Hunter, Galaxy Nurseries, Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout, SuperWASP: Black hole hunters.