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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

THE ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE: DATA CHARACTERIZATION AND MAPMAKING
R Dünner, M Hasselfield, TA Marriage, J Sievers, V Acquaviva, GE Addison, PAR Ade, P Aguirre, M Amiri, JW Appel, LF Barrientos, ES Battistelli, JR Bond, B Brown, B Burger, E Calabrese, J Chervenak, S Das, MJ Devlin, SR Dicker, WB Doriese, J Dunkley, T Essinger-Hileman, RP Fisher, MB Gralla et al.
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2012)
762,
10
(doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/762/1/10)
THE ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE: CALIBRATION WITH THEWILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBEUSING CROSS-CORRELATIONS
A Hajian, V Acquaviva, PAR Ade, P Aguirre, M Amiri, JW Appel, LF Barrientos, ES Battistelli, JR Bond, B Brown, B Burger, J Chervenak, S Das, MJ Devlin, SR Dicker, WB Doriese, J Dunkley, R Dünner, T Essinger-Hileman, RP Fisher, JW Fowler, M Halpern, M Hasselfield, C Hernández-Monteagudo, GC Hilton et al.
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2011)
740,
86
(doi: 10.1088/0004-637x/740/2/86)
THE ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE: COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS FROM THE 2008 POWER SPECTRUM
J Dunkley, R Hlozek, J Sievers, V Acquaviva, PAR Ade, P Aguirre, M Amiri, JW Appel, LF Barrientos, ES Battistelli, JR Bond, B Brown, B Burger, J Chervenak, S Das, MJ Devlin, SR Dicker, WB Doriese, R Dünner, T Essinger-Hileman, RP Fisher, JW Fowler, A Hajian, M Halpern, M Hasselfield et al.
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2011)
739,
52
(doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/739/1/52)
THE ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE: SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH-SELECTED GALAXY CLUSTERS AT 148 GHz IN THE 2008 SURVEY
TA Marriage, V Acquaviva, PAR Ade, P Aguirre, M Amiri, JW Appel, LF Barrientos, ES Battistelli, JR Bond, B Brown, B Burger, J Chervenak, S Das, MJ Devlin, SR Dicker, WB Doriese, J Dunkley, R Dünner, T Essinger-Hileman, RP Fisher, JW Fowler, A Hajian, M Halpern, M Hasselfield, C Hernández-Monteagudo et al.
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2011)
737,
61
(doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/737/2/61)
THE ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE: COSMOLOGY FROM GALAXY CLUSTERS DETECTED VIA THE SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT
N Sehgal, H Trac, V Acquaviva, PAR Ade, P Aguirre, M Amiri, JW Appel, LF Barrientos, ES Battistelli, JR Bond, B Brown, B Burger, J Chervenak, S Das, MJ Devlin, SR Dicker, WB Doriese, J Dunkley, R Dünner, T Essinger-Hileman, RP Fisher, JW Fowler, A Hajian, M Halpern, M Hasselfield et al.
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2011)
732,
44
(doi: 10.1088/0004-637x/732/1/44)
THE ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE: EXTRAGALACTIC SOURCES AT 148 GHz IN THE 2008 SURVEY
TA Marriage, JB Juin, Y-T Lin, D Marsden, MR Nolta, B Partridge, PAR Ade, P Aguirre, M Amiri, JW Appel, LF Barrientos, ES Battistelli, JR Bond, B Brown, B Burger, J Chervenak, S Das, MJ Devlin, SR Dicker, WB Doriese, J Dunkley, R Dünner, T Essinger-Hileman, RP Fisher, JW Fowler et al.
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2011)
731,
100
(doi: 10.1088/0004-637x/731/2/100)
THE ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE: A MEASUREMENT OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND POWER SPECTRUM AT 148 AND 218 GHz FROM THE 2008 SOUTHERN SURVEY
S Das, TA Marriage, PAR Ade, P Aguirre, M Amiri, JW Appel, LF Barrientos, ES Battistelli, JR Bond, B Brown, B Burger, J Chervenak, MJ Devlin, SR Dicker, WB Doriese, J Dunkley, R Dünner, T Essinger-Hileman, RP Fisher, JW Fowler, A Hajian, M Halpern, M Hasselfield, C Hernández-Monteagudo, GC Hilton et al.
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2011)
729,
62
(doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/729/1/62)
Hypervelocity stars from the Andromeda galaxy
BD Sherwin, A Loeb, RM O'Leary
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2008)
386,
1179
(doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13097.x)
Electromagnetic fields in jets
BD Sherwin, D Lynden-Bell
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2007)
378,
409
(doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11791.x)
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Research Group

Relativity and Gravitation

Email

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B2.06

Telephone

01223 337906

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