With a PhD in Astrophysics and a degree in Geophysical Sciences, Dr. Paul Roche is the main astronomical expert on All Night Star Party.

He is currently working as Project Director of the Faulkes Telescope Project, developing educational programmes based around real research projects, relating to the use of robotic telescopes in Science, ICT and Mathematics. He is also the National Schools Astronomer (funded by PPARC), where he is responsible for teacher training activities related to the various robotic telescope projects available.

Previously he worked as Head of Education at the National Space Centre in Leicester, where he developed a national educational programme in Space and Earth Sciences, Astronomy and Phyics. He has lectured at the University of Sussex, was a course tutor at the Open University and was a research fellow at the University of Southampton where he did his degrees.

He has had over 50 papers published in refereed international journals and is currently weighing neutron stars and black holes, using observations from ground-based telescopes in the optical and radio regions, and space-based satellites for X-ray data.