Carlos Frenk

Carlos Silvestre Frenk ( born October 27, 1951) is a British- Mexican astrophysicist. It deals with computer models for structure formation in the Universe.

Frenk studied theoretical physics in 1972 at the University of Mexico City and in 1976 at the University of Cambridge, where he became in 1981 a doctorate in astrophysics. 1981-1983 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and then at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Sussex. From 1985 he was a Lecturer at the University of Durham, where he became Reader in 1991 and Professor in 1993. Since 2001 he has been there Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics and Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC).

Frenk was involved in early studies with George Efstathiou, Marc Davis and Simon White for Cold Dark Matter models of the early universe in the 1980s. In 2011 he was awarded with Marc Davis, George Efstathiou and Simon White for the Gruber Prize for Cosmology. He has played a leadership role in the Virgo Consortium, a European initiative to cosmological studies including supercomputers, including the Cosmology Machine in Durham and another focus at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching.

In 2004 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Wolfson Research Merit Award he received in 2006. In 2010 he received the George Darwin Award of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Hoyle price of the Institute of Physics. In 2014 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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