Shaun Cole | |
Birth Place: | Chipping, Lancashire, England |
Fields: | Cosmology, Galaxy formation, Galactic Astronomy |
Workplaces: | University of California Berkeley Durham University |
Alma Mater: | Jesus College, Oxford Clare College, Cambridge |
Doctoral Advisor: | George Efstathiou and Nick Kaiser |
Known For: | Discovery of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, Semi-analytical Models in Galaxy Formation |
Awards: | Shaw Prize (2014) |
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]