Shaun Cole

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

Shaun Malcolm Cole (born 19 November 1963) is a British cosmologist.

Cole 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 with Daniel Eisenstein and John A. Peacock.[4]

  1. ^ "Biographical Notes of Laureates". The Shaw Prize Foundation. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  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 25 November 2022.