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Don Pollacco is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick. His primary research focus is on the field of extrasolar planets, where he is responsible for the SuperWASP project at La Palma, a major ground-based exoplanet detection experiment that has received a group achievement award from the Royal Astronomical Society in 2010. He is a founder member of the Generation Transit Survey project, which concentrates on analyzing smaller planets to compare them with Neptune-like planets and Super-Earths. Pollacco is involved in several ESA missions aimed at detecting and characterizing planets within the habitable zones of their stars. He serves as the science coordinator for the PLATO mission, which aims to detect and characterize rocky planets. His work also includes significant contributions to Space Situational Awareness, specifically regarding space debris. He has held the Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award and is currently supervising multiple PhD students engaged in relevant research fields.
University of Warwick • Coventry, UK
Teaching and research in the Department of Physics, focusing on extrasolar planets and space situational awareness.
Includes General, Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, Biomedical, and Manufacturing Engineering. Most programs fall under English Band A.