Professor Anthony David Challinor | Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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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

A covariant and gauge-invariant analysis of cosmic microwave background anisotropies from scalar perturbations

AD Challinor, AN Lasenby

(1998)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9804150)

Recent Developments in the Calculation of CMB Anisotropies

AD Challinor, AN Lasenby

(1998)

409

(doi: 10.1007/978-94-011-5046-0_13)

Recent developments in the calculation of CMB anisotropies

AD Challinor, AN Lasenby

(1997)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9711028)

Relativistic corrections to the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

AD Challinor, AN Lasenby

(1997)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9711161)

Recent developments in the calculation of CMB anisotropies

AD Challinor, AN Lasenby

– CURRENT TOPICS IN ASTROFUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS: PRIMORDIAL COSMOLOGY

(1997)

511,

409

(link to publication)

Rotating astrophysical systems and a gauge theory approach to gravity

AN Lasenby, CJL Doran, Y Dabrowski, AD Challinor

– CURRENT TOPICS IN ASTROFUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS, 5TH COURSE

(1997)

380

(link to publication)

Rotating Astrophysical Systems and a Gauge Theory Approach to Gravity

AN Lasenby, CJL Doran, Y Dabrowski, AD Challinor

(1997)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9707165)

Tunnelling times of electrons

A Challinor, A Lasenby, S Somaroo, C Doran, S Gull

– Physics Letters A

(1997)

227,

143

(doi: 10.1016/s0375-9601(97)00041-8)

Massive, non-ghost solutions for the Dirac field coupled self-consistently to gravity

A Challinor, A Lasenby, C Doran, S Gull

– General Relativity and Gravitation

(1997)

29,

1527

(doi: 10.1023/A:1018830329120)

A relativistic, causal account of a spin measurement

A Challinor, A Lasenby, S Gull, C Doran

– Physics Letters A

(1996)

218,

128

(doi: 10.1016/0375-9601(96)00435-5)