Prof Pinfield is a research astronomer and lecturer in physics astronomy and maths. His main research interests are in the areas of brown dwarfs, extra-solar planets and cool stars. He is the leader of an FP7 Initial Training Network (RoPACS) that focuses on planets and cool stars, and is co-PI of a >100 night planet transit survey as part of this network. He also leads projects exploiting large-scale near-mid infrared sky surveys (UKIDSS, VISTA and WISE) for ultra-cool science. In addition he carries out research to foster ongoing developments for future space-based studies of extra-solar planets, and collaborates in this area with Astrium (Europe's largest space engineering company) in Stevenage.

• Searching for cool star planets and eclipsing systems using the transit technique
• Revealing the nature of brown dwarfs from population studies
• Understanding ultra-cool atmospheres using benchmark brown dwarfs
• Measuring the properties of cool stars
• Radial velocity techniques for planet detection
• Detection of exoplanet reflected/emitted light
• Fostering the science of future space observatories (e.g. ESA Cosmic Vision)

• Undergraduate final year research projects (coordinator and provider)
• Astrophysics lectures, including in extra-solar planets and brown dwarfs
• Teacher training course at East-of-England Science Learning Centre "Bringing contemporary science to the classroom", helping teachers use modern astrophysics in their GCSE teaching
• Range of lecturing experience in physics astronomy and mathematics

• Collaboration with Astrium fostering Cosmic Vision related initiatives - Astrium are partners in Dr Pinfield's RoPACS network
• Offer joint research/industry final year undergraduate projects with Astrium
• Coordinating Nuffield bursary summer student projects in astronomy at UH (through SetPoint) - up to ~10 sixth form students supervised each summer (on 4 week projects)
• Public talks on astronomy, including European Astrofest 2012 and the Scandinavian Astronomy Society conference (2013)