Ben Moore | |
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Awards | Winner of the first Leverhulme Prizes in 2001[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cosmology, gravity, astroparticle physics, planet formation, complex systems, supercomputing |
Thesis | Groups, clusters and superclusters of galaxies (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | Carlos Frenk |
Website | www |
Ben Moore is an English professor of astrophysics, author, musician, and director of the Center for Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Zürich. His research is focussed on cosmology, gravity, astroparticle physics, and planet formation.[2] He has authored in excess of 200 scientific papers on the origin of planets and galaxies, as well as dark matter and dark energy.[3] In his research, he simulates the universe using custom-built supercomputers.[4]