Chris Harrison is among the nearly 100 of the UK’s future science leaders set to benefit from a £113m cash boost to help commercialise their innovations during the Round 5 of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. Delivered through UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) flagship Future Leaders Fellowships scheme – which aims to establish the careers of the next generation of world class British scientists – the investment will enable researchers at universities and businesses to progress their studies quickly by funding essential equipment and paying for researcher wages.

Chris will explore using data from the best telescopes in the world, as well as computer simulations, to understand the relationship between supermassive black holes and galaxies. Alongside this, he will be developing new techniques to make the data more accessible to people who are blind and vision impaired. As part of this he will be looking for 3 PDRAs to join the AstroObs group to work on observations and simulations!