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Professor Blake Sherwin

Career

  • 2024-: Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge (and Deputy Director, Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge, 2026-)
  • 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 and scattering of the CMB.

Research Group

Blake leads the CosMicBacklight project, funded by a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (2026-). Group members and affiliates include:

Postdoctoral and senior researchers: 

Alex Lague

Jordan Krywonos

Ola Kusiak

Fiona McCarthy (now affiliated Royal Society University Research Fellow)

Niall MacCrann (now affiliated Royal Society University Research Fellow)

co-mentored postdocs (primarily IoA-based): Emilie Hertig, Bernardita Ried Guachalla

PhD students:

Irene Abril Cabezas

Carmen Embil-Villagra

Joseph Thornton

Guanming Liang

 

Former group members and next steps:

postdocs: Toshiya Namikawa (postdoc/SRA -> Project Associate Professor, IPMU), Louis Legrand (SNSF postdoc-> faculty, CBPF, Brazil), Giulio Fabbian (postdoc->Snr. Staff Scientist, CNRS), Boris Bolliet (postdoc/SRA -> Asst. Teaching Professor, Cambridge), Dongwon Han (postdoc -> tech. industry)

students: Gerrit Farren (PhD -> Chamberlain Fellow, LBNL), Frank Qu (PhD -> Hubble Fellow, Stanford), Omar Darwish (PhD -> postdoc U Geneva); Boryana Hadzhiyska (Masters -> PhD Harvard), Oliver Philcox (Masters -> PhD Princeton), Alex Reeves (Masters-> PhD ETH Zurich)

 

Blake's recent awards/honors also include an ERC Starting Grant (the CMBLENS project, 2020-2026) and the Royal Astronomical Society's Early Career Award (2019).

 

 

Publications

Delensing cosmic microwave background B modes with the Square Kilometre Array Radio Continuum Survey
T Namikawa, D Yamauchi, B Sherwin, R Nagata
– Physical Review D
(2016)
93,
043527
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.043527)
The Polarbear-2 and the Simons Array Experiments
A Suzuki, P Ade, Y Akiba, C Aleman, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, B Barch, D Barron, A Bender, D Boettger, J Borrill, S Chapman, Y Chinone, A Cukierman, M Dobbs, A Ducout, R Dunner, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, S Feeney, C Feng, T Fujino, G Fuller, A Gilbert et al.
– Journal of Low Temperature Physics
(2016)
184,
805
(doi: 10.1007/s10909-015-1425-4)
POLARBEAR constraints on cosmic birefringence and primordial magnetic fields
PAR Ade, K Arnold, M Atlas, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Boettger, J Borrill, S Chapman, Y Chinone, A Cukierman, M Dobbs, A Ducout, R Dunner, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, S Feeney, C Feng, A Gilbert, N Goeckner-Wald, J Groh, G Hall, NW Halverson, M Hasegawa, K Hattori et al.
– Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology
(2015)
92,
123509
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.92.123509)
MODELING ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION for CMB GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
J Errard, PAR Ade, Y Akiba, K Arnold, M Atlas, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Boettger, J Borrill, S Chapman, Y Chinone, A Cukierman, J Delabrouille, M Dobbs, A Ducout, T Elleflot, G Fabbian, C Feng, S Feeney, A Gilbert, N Goeckner-Wald, NW Halverson, M Hasegawa, K Hattori, M Hazumi et al.
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2015)
809,
63
(doi: 10.1088/0004-637x/809/1/63)
A MEASUREMENT OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDB-MODE POLARIZATION POWER SPECTRUM AT SUB-DEGREE SCALES WITH POLARBEAR
TPCPAR Ade, Y Akiba, AE Anthony, K Arnold, M Atlas, D Barron, D Boettger, J Borrill, S Chapman, Y Chinone, M Dobbs, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, C Feng, D Flanigan, A Gilbert, W Grainger, NW Halverson, M Hasegawa, K Hattori, M Hazumi, WL Holzapfel, Y Hori, J Howard et al.
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2014)
794,
171
(doi: 10.1088/0004-637x/794/2/171)
Measurement of the cosmic microwave background polarization lensing power spectrum with the POLARBEAR experiment
PAR Ade, Y Akiba, AE Anthony, K Arnold, M Atlas, D Barron, D Boettger, J Borrill, S Chapman, Y Chinone, M Dobbs, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, C Feng, D Flanigan, A Gilbert, W Grainger, NW Halverson, M Hasegawa, K Hattori, M Hazumi, WL Holzapfel, Y Hori, J Howard et al.
– Phys Rev Lett
(2014)
113,
021301
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.021301)
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: temperature and gravitational lensing power spectrum measurements from three seasons of data
S Das, T Louis, MR Nolta, GE Addison, ES Battistelli, JR Bond, E Calabrese, D Crichton, MJ Devlin, S Dicker, J Dunkley, R Dünner, JW Fowler, M Gralla, A Hajian, M Halpern, M Hasselfield, M Hilton, AD Hincks, R Hlozek, KM Huffenberger, JP Hughes, KD Irwin, A Kosowsky, RH Lupton et al.
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2014)
2014,
014
(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/04/014)
Evidence for gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background polarization from cross-correlation with the cosmic infrared background.
PAR Ade, Y Akiba, AE Anthony, K Arnold, M Atlas, D Barron, D Boettger, J Borrill, C Borys, S Chapman, Y Chinone, M Dobbs, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, C Feng, D Flanigan, A Gilbert, W Grainger, NW Halverson, M Hasegawa, K Hattori, M Hazumi, WL Holzapfel, Y Hori et al.
– Phys Rev Lett
(2014)
112,
131302
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.131302)
Cosmological parameters from pre-planck cosmic microwave background measurements
E Calabrese, RA Hlozek, N Battaglia, ES Battistelli, JR Bond, J Chluba, D Crichton, S Das, MJ Devlin, J Dunkley, R Dünner, M Farhang, MB Gralla, A Hajian, M Halpern, M Hasselfield, AD Hincks, KD Irwin, A Kosowsky, T Louis, TA Marriage, K Moodley, L Newburgh, MD Niemack, MR Nolta et al.
– Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology
(2013)
87,
103012
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.103012)
Cosmological Parameters from Pre-Planck CMB Measurements
E Calabrese, RA Hlozek, N Battaglia, ES Battistelli, JR Bond, J Chluba, D Crichton, S Das, MJ Devlin, J Dunkley, R Dünner, M Farhang, MB Gralla, A Hajian, M Halpern, M Hasselfield, AD Hincks, KD Irwin, A Kosowsky, T Louis, TA Marriage, K Moodley, L Newburgh, MD Niemack, MR Nolta et al.
(2013)
(link to publication)
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Relativity and Gravitation

Email

bds30@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Room

B2.06

Telephone

01223 337906

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