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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: a CMB lensing mass map over 2100 square degrees of sky and its cross-correlation with BOSS-CMASS galaxies
O Darwish, MS Madhavacheril, BD Sherwin, S Aiola, N Battaglia, JA Beall, DT Becker, JR Bond, E Calabrese, SK Choi, MJ Devlin, J Dunkley, R Dünner, S Ferraro, AE Fox, PA Gallardo, Y Guan, M Halpern, D Han, M Hasselfield, JC Hill, GC Hilton, M Hilton, AD Hincks, S-P Patty Ho et al.
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2020)
500,
2250
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/staa3438)
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Weighing Distant Clusters with the Most Ancient Light
MS Madhavacheril, C Sifón, N Battaglia, S Aiola, S Amodeo, JE Austermann, JA Beall, DT Becker, JR Bond, E Calabrese, SK Choi, EV Denison, MJ Devlin, SR Dicker, SM Duff, AJ Duivenvoorden, J Dunkley, R Dünner, S Ferraro, PA Gallardo, Y Guan, D Han, JC Hill, GC Hilton, M Hilton et al.
– The Astrophysical Journal Letters
(2020)
903,
l13
(doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/abbccb)
Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Component-separated maps of CMB temperature and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
MS Madhavacheril, JC Hill, S Næss, GE Addison, S Aiola, T Baildon, N Battaglia, R Bean, JR Bond, E Calabrese, V Calafut, SK Choi, O Darwish, R Datta, MJ Devlin, J Dunkley, R Dünner, S Ferraro, PA Gallardo, V Gluscevic, M Halpern, D Han, M Hasselfield, M Hilton, AD Hincks et al.
– Physical Review D
(2020)
102,
023534
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.023534)
Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing Power Spectrum from Two Years of POLARBEAR Data
MA Faúndez, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Beck, S Beckman, F Bianchini, J Carron, K Cheung, Y Chinone, HE Bouhargani, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, C Feng, T Fujino, N Goeckner-Wald, T Hamada, M Hasegawa, M Hazumi, CA Hill, H Hirose, O Jeong, N Katayama, B Keating et al.
– Astrophysical Journal
(2020)
893,
85
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab7e29)
Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Constraints on cosmic birefringence
T Namikawa, Y Guan, O Darwish, BD Sherwin, S Aiola, N Battaglia, JA Beall, DT Becker, JR Bond, E Calabrese, GE Chesmore, SK Choi, MJ Devlin, J Dunkley, R Dünner, AE Fox, PA Gallardo, V Gluscevic, D Han, M Hasselfield, GC Hilton, AD Hincks, R Hložek, J Hubmayr, K Huffenberger et al.
(2020)
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.083527)
Internal Delensing of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization B-Modes with the POLARBEAR Experiment
S Adachi, MAO Aguilar Faúndez, Y Akiba, A Ali, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Beck, F Bianchini, J Borrill, J Carron, K Cheung, Y Chinone, K Crowley, H El Bouhargani, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, C Feng, T Fujino, N Goeckner-Wald, M Hasegawa, M Hazumi, CA Hill, L Howe et al.
– Physical Review Letters
(2020)
124,
131301
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.131301)
The Gravitational Lensing Signatures of BOSS Voids in the Cosmic Microwave Background
S Raghunathan, S Nadathur, BD Sherwin, N Whitehorn
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2020)
890,
168
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab6f05)
Updated Design of the CMB Polarization Experiment Satellite LiteBIRD
H Sugai, PAR Ade, Y Akiba, D Alonso, K Arnold, J Aumont, J Austermann, C Baccigalupi, AJ Banday, R Banerji, RB Barreiro, S Basak, J Beall, S Beckman, M Bersanelli, J Borrill, F Boulanger, ML Brown, M Bucher, A Buzzelli, E Calabrese, FJ Casas, A Challinor, V Chan, Y Chinone et al.
– Journal of Low Temperature Physics
(2020)
199,
1107
(doi: 10.1007/s10909-019-02329-w)
Cross-correlation of cmb polarization lensing with high-z submillimeter herschel-atlas galaxies
MA Faúndez, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Beck, F Bianchini, D Boettger, J Borrill, J Carron, K Cheung, Y Chinone, HE Bouhargani, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, C Feng, N Galitzki, N Goeckner-Wald, M Hasegawa, M Hazumi, L Howe, D Kaneko, N Katayama, B Keating, N Krachmalnicoff et al.
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2019)
886,
38
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab4a78)
Evidence for the Cross-correlation between Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing from Polarbear and Cosmic Shear from Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam
T Namikawa, Y Chinone, H Miyatake, M Oguri, R Takahashi, A Kusaka, N Katayama, S Adachi, M Aguilar, H Aihara, A Ali, R Armstrong, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Beck, S Beckman, F Bianchini, D Boettger, J Borrill, K Cheung, L Corbett, KT Crowley, HE Bouhargani, T Elleflot et al.
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2019)
882,
62
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab3424)
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Relativity and Gravitation

Email

bds30@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Room

B2.06

Telephone

01223 337906

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