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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

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
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty1769)
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, H-M 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
(doi: 10.1007/s10909-018-1915-2)
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
(doi: 10.1007/s10909-018-1947-7)
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
(doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa8e9f)
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
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.123529)
CMB-S4 Science Book, First Edition
KN Abazajian, P Adshead, Z Ahmed, SW Allen, D Alonso, KS Arnold, C Baccigalupi, JG Bartlett, N Battaglia, BA Benson, CA Bischoff, J Borrill, V Buza, E Calabrese, R Caldwell, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, TM Crawford, F-Y Cyr-Racine, FD Bernardis, TD Haan, SDS Alighieri, J Dunkley, C Dvorkin, J Errard et al.
(2016)
(link to publication)
Demonstration of Cosmic Microwave Background Delensing Using the Cosmic Infrared Background.
P Larsen, A Challinor, BD Sherwin, S Mak
– Phys Rev Lett
(2016)
117,
151102
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151102)
Weak-lensing mass calibration of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope equatorial Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample with the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope stripe 82 survey
N Battaglia, A Leauthaud, H Miyatake, M Hasselfield, MB Gralla, R Allison, JR Bond, E Calabrese, D Crichton, MJ Devlin, J Dunkley, R Dünner, T Erben, S Ferrara, M Halpern, M Hilton, JC Hill, AD Hincks, R Hložek, KM Huffenberger, JP Hughes, JP Kneib, A Kosowsky, M Makler, TA Marriage et al.
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2016)
2016,
013
(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/08/013)
Evidence for the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and velocity reconstruction from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
E Schaan, S Ferraro, M Vargas-Magaña, KM Smith, S Ho, S Aiola, N Battaglia, JR Bond, F De Bernardis, E Calabrese, H-M Cho, MJ Devlin, J Dunkley, PA Gallardo, M Hasselfield, S Henderson, JC Hill, AD Hincks, R Hlozek, J Hubmayr, JP Hughes, KD Irwin, B Koopman, A Kosowsky, D Li et al.
– Physical Review D
(2016)
93,
082002
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.93.082002)
LiteBIRD: Mission Overview and Focal Plane Layout
T Matsumura, Y Akiba, K Arnold, J Borrill, R Chendra, Y Chinone, A Cukierman, T de Haan, M Dobbs, A Dominjon, T Elleflot, J Errard, T Fujino, H Fuke, N Goeckner-wald, N Halverson, P Harvey, M Hasegawa, K Hattori, M Hattori, M Hazumi, C Hill, G Hilton, W Holzapfel, Y Hori et al.
– Journal of Low Temperature Physics
(2016)
184,
824
(doi: 10.1007/s10909-016-1542-8)
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Relativity and Gravitation

Email

bds30@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Room

B2.06

Telephone

01223 337906

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