Prof. Robert Massey is Deputy Executive Director of the Royal Astronomical Society, an ideal job given his lifelong passion for space science and astronomy. Before joining the RAS, his career took him from undergraduate years in Leicester to PhD research in Manchester to teaching in Brighton, and local politics in London alongside eight years as Public Astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. In his spare time he enjoys running, cycling, hiking and cooking, and generally making the most of life in his family home in Sussex.

Robert holds an honorary professorship at the University of Sussex. With the art historian Alexandra Loske, he co-authored Moon: Art, Science, Culture in 2019, and is the resident guest on the RAS Supermassive podcast, consistently one of the most popular in the world for astronomy.