Martin Rees

Martin Rees is one of the world’s leading cosmologists and astrophysicists. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow and former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Astronomer Royal from 1995 to 2025, President of the Royal Society from 2005 to 2010, and sits as a crossbench peer in the House of Lords. His books include Just Six Numbers, Our Final Century, On the Future and Before the Beginning. In 2012, he co-founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk in Cambridge with a mission to explore how to reduce the risks of global catastrophes.

Books by Martin Rees

Secrets of the Cosmos

Martin Rees

One of the world’s top cosmologists gives his personal take on how scientists have transformed our understanding of the universe – and of the mysteries that remain

The Shape of Wonder

Alan Lightman, Martin Rees

Our Final Century

Martin Rees

Leading cosmologist Sir Martin Rees gives a sobering and fascinating look at the catastrophe which could threaten human life.