Richard Massey (born 14 October 1977) is a physicist currently working as Royal Society Research Fellow in the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University.
[1] Previously he was a senior research fellow in astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology[2] and STFC Advanced Fellow at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Edinburgh.
[3] Massey graduated in Maths and Physics from the University of Durham in 2000 and was a member of Castle.
[4] He completed his Ph.D. at Cambridge (Clare College) in 2003, with a thesis entitled Weighing the Universe with weak gravitational lensing.
[5] Massey is most well known for his studies of dark matter, including the first 3D map of its large-scale distribution[6][7] and its behaviour during collisions.