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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

LiteBIRD: A Satellite for the Studies of B-Mode Polarization and Inflation from Cosmic Background Radiation Detection
M Hazumi, PAR Ade, Y Akiba, D Alonso, K Arnold, J Aumont, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, S Basak, S Beckman, J Borrill, F Boulanger, M Bucher, E Calabrese, Y Chinone, S Cho, A Cukierman, DW Curtis, T de Haan, M Dobbs, A Dominjon, T Dotani, L Duband, A Ducout, J Dunkley et al.
– Journal of Low Temperature Physics
(2019)
194,
443
The impact of wrong assumptions in BAO reconstruction
BD Sherwin, M White
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2019)
2019,
027
Effect of non-Gaussian lensing deflections on CMB lensing measurements
V Böhm, BD Sherwin, J Liu, JC Hill, M Schmittfull, T Namikawa
– Physical Review D
(2018)
98,
123510
Non-Gaussianity of secondary anisotropies from ACTPol and Planck
WR Coulton, S Aiola, N Battaglia, E Calabrese, SK Choi, MJ Devlin, PA Gallardo, JC Hill, AD Hincks, J Hubmayr, JP Hughes, A Kosowsky, T Louis, MS Madhavacheril, M Loïc, S Naess, F Nati, MD Niemack, LA Page, B Partridge, BD Sherwin, DN Spergel, ST Staggs, AV Engelen, EJ Wollack
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2018)
2018,
022
The POLARBEAR-2 and Simons Array Focal Plane Fabrication Status
B Westbrook, PAR Ade, M Aguilar, Y Akiba, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Beck, S Beckman, AN Bender, F Bianchini, D Boettger, J Borrill, S Chapman, Y Chinone, G Coppi, K Crowley, A Cukierman, T de Haan, R Dünner, M Dobbs, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, SM Feeney et al.
– Journal of Low Temperature Physics
(2018)
193,
758
Detection and removal of B-mode dust foregrounds with signatures of statistical anisotropy
OHE Philcox, BD Sherwin, A Van Engelen
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2018)
479,
5577
Concept Study of Optical Configurations for High-Frequency Telescope for LiteBIRD
T Hasebe, S Kashima, PAR Ade, Y Akiba, D Alonso, K Arnold, J Aumont, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, S Basak, S Beckman, J Borrill, F Boulanger, M Bucher, E Calabrese, Y Chinone, HM Cho, A Cukierman, DW Curtis, T de Haan, M Dobbs, A Dominjon, T Dotani, L Duband, A Ducout et al.
– Journal of Low Temperature Physics
(2018)
193,
841
The LiteBIRD Satellite Mission: Sub-Kelvin Instrument
A Suzuki, PAR Ade, Y Akiba, D Alonso, K Arnold, J Aumont, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, S Basak, S Beckman, J Borrill, F Boulanger, M Bucher, E Calabrese, Y Chinone, S Cho, B Crill, A Cukierman, DW Curtis, T de Haan, M Dobbs, A Dominjon, T Dotani, L Duband, A Ducout et al.
– Journal of Low Temperature Physics
(2018)
193,
1048
A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background B-mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Subdegree Scales from Two Years of polarbear Data
PAR Ade, M Aguilar, Y Akiba, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Beck, F Bianchini, D Boettger, J Borrill, S Chapman, Y Chinone, K Crowley, A Cukierman, R Dünner, M Dobbs, A Ducout, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, SM Feeney, C Feng, T Fujino, N Galitzki, A Gilbert et al.
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2017)
848,
121
Two-season Atacama Cosmology Telescope polarimeter lensing power spectrum
BD Sherwin, A Van Engelen, N Sehgal, M Madhavacheril, GE Addison, S Aiola, R Allison, N Battaglia, DT Becker, JA Beall, JR Bond, E Calabrese, R Datta, MJ Devlin, R Dünner, J Dunkley, AE Fox, P Gallardo, M Halpern, M Hasselfield, S Henderson, JC Hill, GC Hilton, J Hubmayr, JP Hughes et al.
– Physical Review D
(2017)
95,
123529
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Research Group

Relativity and Gravitation

Room

B2.06

Telephone

01223 337906