Peter Coles

Peter Coles
Peter Coles
Born	4 June 1963
Alma mater	University of Sussex ;
Occupation	Astrophysicist ;
Website	telescoper.wordpress.com
	Academic career
Fields	Cosmology
Institutions	Queen Mary University of London (1990–1999); University of Sussex (2013–); University of Nottingham (1999–2007); Cardiff University (2007–2013); Maynooth University (2017–) ;
Doctoral advisor	John D. Barrow

Peter Coles (born 1963) is a theoretical cosmologist at Maynooth University. He studies the large scale structure of our Universe.

He studied for his PhD from 1985 to 1988, subsequently becoming a postdoctoral researcher at Sussex and Queen Mary, subsequently becoming a lecturer there. He was a professor at Cardiff University starting in 2007, and from 2013 he was the head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex. In 2017 he started working at Maynooth University, becoming head of the Department of Theoretical Physics in 2019.