Shaun Cole

Shaun Malcolm Cole (born 19 November 1963) is a British cosmologist and academic. He has been Professor of Physics at Durham University since 2005 and is the current Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology.[1][2][3] He was joint-winner of the 2014 Shaw Prize.[4]

Shaun Cole
Born
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materJesus College, Oxford
Clare College
University of Cambridge
Known forDiscovery of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, Semi-analytical Models in Galaxy Formation
AwardsShaw Prize in Astronomy (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsCosmology, Galaxy formation, Galactic Astronomy
InstitutionsUniversity of California Berkeley
Durham University
Doctoral advisorGeorge Efstathiou, Nick Kaiser
InfluencesCarlos Frenk, John Peacock
InfluencedRichard Massey
Websitestar-www.dur.ac.uk/~cole

References

  1. "Biographical Notes of Laureates". The Shaw Prize Foundation. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  2. "Curriculum Vitae". Durham University. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  3. "Institute for Computational Cosmology - Durham University". www.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  4. "The Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2014". The Shaw Prize Foundation. 27 May 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2014.


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