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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Career

  • 2017-present Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics
    • Deputy Director, Institute of Astromony
    • Deputy Director, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge
  • 2011-2017 Reader in Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • 2006 -2011 University Lecturer, Institute of Astronomy and DAMTP
  • 2002 -2007 Royal Society University Research Fellow
  • 2000 -2002 PPARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • 1998 -present Fellow, Queens' College

Research

I have a range of research interests in physical and theoretical cosmology, mostly centred on the issue of testing the cosmological model and the origin of cosmic structure with cosmological observations. A particular focus is the the origin, interpretation, and measurement of temperature anisotropies and polarization in the CMB. I am a Core Team member of the Planck High-Frequency Instrument and a member of the Simons Observatory with particular interests in lensing of the CMB, constraining the key cosmological parameters and searching for B-mode polarization induced by gravitational waves from the early universe.

Selected Publications

Publications list on ADS

 

Publications

Analysis of cosmic microwave background data on an incomplete sky
DJ Mortlock, AD Challinor, MP Hobson
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2002)
330,
405
Analysis of CMB polarization on an incomplete sky
A Lewis, A Challinor, N Turok
– Physical Review D
(2001)
65,
023505
Detecting magnetic CMB polarization on an incomplete sky
A Lewis, A Challinor, N Turok
(2001)
All-sky convolution for polarimetry experiments
A Challinor, P Fosalba, D Mortlock, M Ashdown, B Wandelt, K Gorski
– Physical Review D
(2000)
62,
123002
Efficient Computation of Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies in Closed Friedmann‐Robertson‐Walker Models
A Lewis, A Challinor, A Lasenby
– Astrophysical Journal
(2000)
538,
473
Microwave background polarization in cosmological models
A Challinor
– Physical Review D
(2000)
62,
043004
Thermal and kinematic corrections to the microwave background polarization induced by galaxy clusters along the line of sight
AD Challinor, MT Ford, AN Lasenby
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2000)
312,
159
Microwave background anisotropies from gravitational waves: the 1 + 3 covariant approach
A Challinor
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2000)
17,
871
The covariant perturbative approach to cosmic microwave background anisotropies
A Challinor
– General Relativity and Gravitation
(1999)
32,
1059
Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies in the Cold Dark Matter Model: A Covariant and Gauge‐invariant Approach
A Challinor, A Lasenby
– Astrophysical Journal
(1999)
513,
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Research Group

Relativity and Gravitation

Room

B2.08

Telephone

01223 764341