Carlos Frenk
Carlos Silvestre Frenk | |
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Frenk in 2012 | |
| Born | 27 October 1951 |
| Citizenship | British, German and Mexican |
| Alma mater | University of Mexico (BSc) University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Known for | Navarro–Frenk–White profile |
| Spouse | Dr Susan Frenk |
| Children | 2 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions | Durham University University of Sussex University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Globular clusters in the galaxy and in the Large Magellanic Cloud (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bernard J. T. Jones |
| Doctoral students | Ben Moore Gillian Wilson |
| Website | https://astro.dur.ac.uk/~csf/homepage/index.html |
Carlos Silvestre Frenk CBE FRS (born 27 October 1951) is a Mexican-British cosmologist. Frenk graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the University of Cambridge, spending his early research career in the United States, before settling permanently in the United Kingdom. He joined Durham University in 1986 and has served as the Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University Department of Physics since 2001.
Frenk is most notable for his work on galaxy formation, including his use of complex computer simulations to test theories on the origins and evolution of the universe. Alongside Marc Davis, George Efstathiou, and Simon White, he published a series of papers that established the validity of the cold dark matter hypothesis. He has written over 500 scientific articles and co-authored 5 of the 100 most cited papers ever published within his field. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004 and has received numerous awards.