Professor Joseph Caruana will be discussing – On being Human: Perspectives from Astronomy” – during a talk to be held at the Il-Hagar Museum in Victoria, Gozo.

After graduating from the University of Malta, Prof Caruana read for a DPhil in astrophysics as a Marie Curie research fellow in a network associated with the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope NIRSpec instrument. This was in Oxford where he also tutored he tutored General Relativity and Cosmology. He then took up a postdoctoral research position in astrophysics at the Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik.

Returning home, Professor Caruana now lectures on optics, astrophysics and cosmology, and the philosophy of science, having joined the Department of Physics and the Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy.

His main astrophysics research interests encompass the early universe, galaxy formation and evolution, and galactic dynamics.

A widely-published author, he is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a member of the European Astronomical Society and the International Astronomical Union.

The museum said that he is therefore “extremely qualified to treat the stark contrast between man and cosmic grandness. Many fundamental questions still remain to be answered but successive technological innovations continually expand our knowledge of the universe.”

The talk will be on Saturday, the 4th of February, starting at 11am.

Attendance is free, but those interested in this talk which will be delivered in English, can book a seat on events@heartofgozo.org.mt.

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