Anthony Aguirre
Anthony Aguirre | |
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| Born | July 23, 1973 |
| Nationality | American |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cosmology, Physics |
| Institutions | UC Santa Cruz |
| Thesis | Intergalactic dust and metals in cosmology (2000) |
| Doctoral advisors | Lars 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.