Staff Lead researcher FS Professor Francesco Shankar Professor of Astrophysics Research interests Super-massive Black Hole Demography and Evolution Galaxy Evolution: Spheroids and Bulges, Environment, High-redshift galaxies Connect with Francesco Email: f.shankar@soton.ac.uk Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups Astronomy Group We aim to understand the nature of cosmic objects and the life cycle of stars including the impact of surrounding galaxies.