Peter Coles

Peter Coles (born 1963) is a theoretical cosmologist at Maynooth University.[2] He studies the large scale structure of our Universe.

He studied for his PhD in 1985–1988, 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. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle. He did his first degree at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in Natural Sciences, specialising in Theoretical Physics. In 1985] he started studying for his doctorate at the University of Sussex, supervised by John D. Barrow, and completed his DPhil thesis in 1988.

Coles advises LGBT scientists not to worry excessively that their sexual orientation will impair their careers. He enjoys a wide range of music, especially classical and jazz and he listens to Radio 3, but he does not like the sound produced by harpsichords.