Rob Fender

{{short description|British astrophysicist}}

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| workplaces = University of Oxford

| alma_mater = University of Southampton (BSc)
Open University (PhD)

| doctoral_advisor = Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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| thesis_title = Multiwavelength behaviour of Cygnus X-3 and related objects

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| thesis_year = 1996

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| prizes = Philip Leverhulme Prize (2005)
Herschel Medal (2020)

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Robert P. Fender is a British astrophysicist. He is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford.{{cite web |title=Professor Rob Fender |url=https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/our-people/fender |website=University of Oxford Department of Physics |publisher=Oxford University |access-date=1 May 2025 |language=en}}

Fender earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Southampton.{{cite journal |title=Fellows |journal=Postgraduate Student Handbook "Blue Book" |date=2014 |page=8 |url=https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/downloads/official_information/STUDENT_HANDBOOK_Blue_Book_2014_2015_PG_Final.pdf |access-date=1 May 2025 |publisher=Brasenose College, Oxford}} His doctorate was awarded by the Open University in 1996. He was Head of Astrophysics at Oxford from 2019 to 2024.

Fender was a Philip Leverhulme Prize winner in 2005, and was the 2020 recipient of the Herschel Medal.{{cite web |title=Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2005 |url=http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/nms/highlights-press/LeverhulmePrize2005.pdf |publisher=Leverhulme Trust |access-date=1 May 2025 |page=2 |date=2005}}{{cite web |title=Professor Robert Fender: 2020 Herschel Medal |url=https://ras.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2020-01/Herschel%20Medal%20-%20Robert%20Fender.pdf |publisher=Royal Astronomical Society |access-date=1 May 2025 |date=2020}}{{cite web |title=Leading astronomers and geophysicists honoured in RAS bicentenary year |url=https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/leading-astronomers-and-geophysicists-honoured-ras-bicentenary-year-0 |website=The Royal Astronomical Society |access-date=1 May 2025 |language=en |date=10 January 2020}}