Anthony Aguirre

Anthony Aguirre
Born (1973-07-23) July 23, 1973
NationalityAmerican
Scientific career
FieldsCosmology, Physics
InstitutionsUC Santa Cruz
ThesisIntergalactic dust and metals in cosmology (2000)
Doctoral advisorsLars Hernquist, David Layzer

Anthony Aguirre (born 1973) is a theoretical cosmologist. Aguirre is a professor and holds the Faggin Presidential Chair for the Physics of Information at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the co-founder and associate scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute and is also a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute. In 2015, he co-founded the aggregated prediction platform Metaculus with Greg Laughlin. In 2019, he published the pop science book Cosmological Koans.