Daniel Bayliss

I am an associate professor in the Astronomy and Astrophysics group of the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick. My primary research focus is on exoplanets, and in particular the discovery and characterisation of transiting exoplanets.

I am the Physics with Astronomy Course Coordinator and the Director of The Marsh Observatory. I am the module leader of the 1st year Astronomy Course (PX158), and also run the Simulating Planetary Systems laboratory as part of PX271 and PX283.

I am part of the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTSLink opens in a new window), the HATSouth survey (HATSLink opens in a new window), the TESS follow-up program (TFOPLink opens in a new window), and the European Space Agency's upcoming PLATO mission (PLATO).

The image below is an artist's impression of NGTS-1b, the largest exoplanet found around an M-dwarf host star (Bayliss et al., 2017, MNRAS, 475, 4467Link opens in a new window). You can read more about this discovery hereLink opens in a new window. Image credit: University of Warwick/ Mark Galick.