Shaun Cole
Shaun Cole (born November 1963 ) is a British astronomer.
Cole went to school in Lancashire and studied physics at Oxford University (Jesus College) with a bachelor's degree in 1985, completed the third part of the mathematical tripos in Cambridge with honors in 1986 and received a PhD in astrophysics from Cambridge University in 1989 (Evolution of large scale structure and galaxy formation). As a post-doctoral student he was at the Center for Theoretical Astrophysics in Berkeley and from 1991 at the University of Durham (as a PPARC Fellow), where he became reader in 2001 and professor in 2005. There he works at the Institute for Computational Cosmology.
He deals with the formation and evolution of galaxies and large-scale structures in the distribution of galaxies in the universe. Since its inception, he has been significantly involved in the Anglo-Australian 2dFGRS (2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey), which measured the redshift (and from it the distance) of over 230,000 galaxies. Cole developed algorithms (he is co-developer of the GALFORM algorithm) to numerically simulate theoretical models of the galaxy distribution on computers, which were then compared by Cole and colleagues with observation data from 2dF.
In 2014 he received the Shaw Prize in astronomy with Daniel Eisenstein and John A. Peacock .
He is a member of the PS1 consortium ( Pan-STARRS , telescope on Mount Haleakala in Hawaii).
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| SURNAME | Cole, Shaun |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1963 |