Professor Carlos Silvestre Frenk (born October 27, 1951) is a Mexican-British cosmologist. His main interests lie in the field of cosmology

Physical cosmology

Physical cosmology, as a branch of astronomy, is the study of the largest-scale structures and dynamics of the universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its formation and evolution. For most of human history, it was a branch of metaphysics and religion...

, galaxy formation and computer simulations of cosmic structure formation.

He is currently the Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics and Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University

Durham University

The University of Durham, commonly known as Durham University, is a university in Durham, England. It was founded by Act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a Royal Charter in 1837...

 and Principal Investigator of the Virgo Consortium

Virgo Consortium

The Virgo Consortium was founded in 1994 for Cosmological Supercomputer Simulations in response to the UK's High Performance Computing Initiative. Virgo developed rapidly into an international collaboration between dozen scientists in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Canada, USA and Japan-Nodes:The...

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He received a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

 in 1981. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society

Royal Society

The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...

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