Professor Jim EmersonEmeritus Professor of AstrophysicsEmail: j.p.emerson@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: G. O. Jones Building, Room 231ResearchPublicationsPerformanceGrantsResearchResearch Interests:My research interests Survey Astronomy: I was Principal Investigator for the construction of the £36m VISTA the 'Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy' a 4m wide field survey telescope in Chile with infrared (ZYJHKs) field of view of 1.5 sq deg with 0.34 arc sec pixels, and work on results from its surveys. Star Formation Star clusters Galactic Structure Magellanic Clouds Dust grains My observational experience mainly in the InfraRed PublicationsMy publications see ADS and enter Emerson, J. - ignore the results on quantum topics from Joseph EmersonPerformanceMy talks pdfs of recent talks will apear here GrantsMy Grants Current: STFC £1,600k Astronomy Unit Consolidated grant STFC £ 381k Doctoral training grant 2008 STFC £ 18k VISTA Exploitation EC FP-7 £ 66k Enabling Virtual Access to Latin-American Southern Observatories (EVALSO) Past: to be added