[7] He went on to study at the University of Edinburgh where he was awarded a PhD in 1983 for research on the evolution of radio galaxies supervised by Malcolm Longair.

[9][10][11][12][13][14] With the zCOSMOS project,[15] Lilly has sought to identify the physical processes that shape the properties of galaxies over cosmic time in different space environments.

"[16] He was awarded the 2017 Herschel Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society, in recognition of his work on the Canada-France Redshift Survey, which "provided the first measurement of the luminosity density of normal galaxies over cosmological timescales [and] motivated the follow-up census at higher redshifts with the first Hubble Deep Field.

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