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Faculty of Mathematics

 

Career

  • 2024-: Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2022-2024: Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics (Grade 11), DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2017-2022: Assistant Professor, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2017-2022: STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2016-2017: NASA Einstein Fellow, Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
  • 2013-2016: Miller Research Fellow, Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
  • 2008-2013: Ph.D. in Physics, Princeton University
  • 2004-2008: Part III Mathematics and Parts I/II NST Physics, University of Cambridge

Research Interests

Blake is a theoretical and observational cosmologist. He has research interests across CMB and large-scale structure, with a particular focus on measurements of the gravitational lensing of the CMB.

Research Group

Blake leads the CMBLENS project, funded by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. Group members include:

Postdoctoral and senior researchers: 

Boris Bolliet (Senior Research Associate)

Fiona McCarthy (joint with Flatiron CCA)

Niall MacCrann (now Royal Society University Research Fellow)

PhD students:

Frank Qu

Gerrit Farren

Irene Abril Cabezas

Carmen Embil-Villagra

 

Former group members and next steps:

Toshiya Namikawa (postdoc -> Project Assistant Professor, IPMU), Dongwon Han (postdoc -> tech. industry), Omar Darwish (PhD -> postdoc U Geneva); Boryana Hadzhiyska (Masters -> PhD Harvard); Oliver Philcox (Masters -> PhD Princeton); Alex Reeves (Masters-> PhD ETH Zurich)

 

 

Publications

Atacama Cosmology Telescope: B-mode delensing with DR6 data and external tracers of large-scale structure
E Hertig, AB Lizancos, FJ Qu, JR Bond, E Calabrese, A Challinor, MJ Devlin, J Dunkley, T Louis, MS Madhavacheril, T Namikawa, LA Page, N Sehgal, B Sherwin, C Sifón, ST Staggs, EJ Wollack
– Physical Review D
(2026)
113,
123530
The Simons Observatory: forecasted constraints on primordial gravitational waves with the expanded array of Small Aperture Telescopes
I Abril-Cabezas, S Adachi, P Ade, AE Adler, P Agrawal, J Aguirre, S Aiola, T Alford, A Ali, D Alonso, MA Alvarez, R An, M Aravena, K Arnold, P Ashton, F Astori, Z Atkins, J Austermann, S Azzoni, C Baccigalupi, D Baker, R Balafendiev, AB Lizancos, D Barron, P Barry et al.
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2026)
2026,
051
Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A measurement of galaxy cluster temperatures through relativistic corrections to the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
WR Coulton, AJ Duivenvoorden, Z Atkins, N Battaglia, ES Battistelli, JR Bond, H Cai, E Calabrese, SK Choi, KT Crowley, MJ Devlin, J Dunkley, S Ferraro, Y Guan, C Hervías-Caimapo, JC Hill, M Hilton, AD Hincks, A Kosowsky, MS Madhavacheril, J van Marrewijk, F McCarthy, K Moodley, T Mroczkowski, MD Niemack et al.
– Physical Review D
(2026)
113,
043520
Unified and Consistent Structure Growth Measurements from Joint ACT, SPT, and Planck CMB Lensing
FJ Qu, F Ge, WLK Wu, I Abril-Cabezas, MS Madhavacheril, M Millea, Z Ahmed, E Anderes, AJ Anderson, B Ansarinejad, M Archipley, Z Atkins, L Balkenhol, N Battaglia, K Benabed, AN Bender, BA Benson, F Bianchini, LE Bleem, B Bolliet, JR Bond, FR Bouchet, L Bryant, E Calabrese, E Camphuis et al.
– Physical Review Letters
(2026)
136,
021001
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: high-redshift measurement of structure growth from the cross-correlation of Quaia quasars and CMB lensing from ACT DR6 and Planck PR4
CE Villagra, G Farren, G Fabbian, B Bolliet, I Abril-Cabezas, D Alonso, A Challinor, J Dunkley, J Kim, N MacCrann, F McCarthy, K Moodley, FJ Qu, B Sherwin, C Sifón, A van Engelen, EJ Wollack
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2025)
2025,
033
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 power spectra, likelihoods and ΛCDM parameters
T Louis, A La Posta, Z Atkins, HT Jense, I Abril-Cabezas, GE Addison, PAR Ade, S Aiola, T Alford, D Alonso, M Amiri, R An, JE Austermann, E Barbavara, N Battaglia, ES Battistelli, JA Beall, R Bean, A Beheshti, B Beringue, T Bhandarkar, E Biermann, B Bolliet, JR Bond, E Calabrese et al.
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2025)
2025,
062
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 constraints on extended cosmological models
E Calabrese, JC Hill, HT Jense, A La Posta, I Abril-Cabezas, GE Addison, PAR Ade, S Aiola, T Alford, D Alonso, M Amiri, R An, Z Atkins, JE Austermann, E Barbavara, N Barbieri, N Battaglia, ES Battistelli, JA Beall, R Bean, A Beheshti, B Beringue, T Bhandarkar, E Biermann, B Bolliet et al.
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2025)
2025,
063
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 maps
S Naess, Y Guan, AJ Duivenvoorden, M Hasselfield, Y Wang, I Abril-Cabezas, GE Addison, PAR Ade, S Aiola, T Alford, D Alonso, M Amiri, R An, Z Atkins, JE Austermann, E Barbavara, N Battaglia, ES Battistelli, JA Beall, R Bean, A Beheshti, B Beringue, T Bhandarkar, E Biermann, B Bolliet et al.
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2025)
2025,
061
Cross-correlating the Patchy Screening and Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effects as a New Probe of Reionization
D Kramer, A van Engelen, C Cain, N MacCrann, H Trac, S Grayson, E Scannapieco, B Sherwin
– Astrophysical Journal
(2025)
994,
82
An iterative CMB lensing estimator minimizing instrumental noise bias
L Legrand, B Sherwin, A Challinor, J Carron, GS Farren
– Physical Review D
(2025)
112,
1035301
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Research Group

Relativity and Gravitation

Room

B2.06

Telephone

01223 337906