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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Career

  • 2024-: Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2022-2024: Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics (Grade 11), DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2017-2022: Assistant Professor, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2017-2022: STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2016-2017: NASA Einstein Fellow, Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
  • 2013-2016: Miller Research Fellow, Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
  • 2008-2013: Ph.D. in Physics, Princeton University
  • 2004-2008: Part III Mathematics and Parts I/II NST Physics, University of Cambridge

Research Interests

Blake is a theoretical and observational cosmologist. He has research interests across CMB and large-scale structure, with a particular focus on measurements of the gravitational lensing of the CMB.

Research Group

Blake leads the CMBLENS project, funded by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. Group members include:

Postdoctoral and senior researchers: 

Boris Bolliet (Senior Research Associate)

Fiona McCarthy (joint with Flatiron CCA)

Niall MacCrann (now Royal Society University Research Fellow)

PhD students:

Frank Qu

Gerrit Farren

Irene Abril Cabezas

Carmen Embil-Villagra

 

Former group members and next steps:

Toshiya Namikawa (postdoc -> Project Assistant Professor, IPMU), Dongwon Han (postdoc -> tech. industry), Omar Darwish (PhD -> postdoc U Geneva); Boryana Hadzhiyska (Masters -> PhD Harvard); Oliver Philcox (Masters -> PhD Princeton); Alex Reeves (Masters-> PhD ETH Zurich)

 

 

Publications

A halo model of extragalactic contamination to CMB lensing, delensing, and cross-correlations
AB Lizancos, W Coulton, A Challinor, BD Sherwin, Y Mehta
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2025)
2025,
031
Evidence for large baryonic feedback at low and intermediate redshifts from kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich observations with ACT and DESI photometric galaxies
B Hadzhiyska, S Ferraro, BR Guachalla, E Schaan, J Aguilar, S Ahlen, N Battaglia, JR Bond, D Brooks, E Calabrese, SK Choi, T Claybaugh, WR Coulton, K Dawson, M Devlin, B Dey, P Doel, AJ Duivenvoorden, J Dunkley, GS Farren, A Font-Ribera, JE Forero-Romero, PA Gallardo, E Gaztañaga, SG Gontcho, M Gralla, L Le Guillou, G Gutierrez, J Guy, JC Hill, R Hložek, K Honscheid, S Juneau, R Kehoe, T Kisner, A Kremin, M Landriau, RH Liu, T Louis, N MacCrann, A de Macorra, M Madhavacheril, M Manera, A Meisner, R Miquel, K Moodley, J Moustakas, T Mroczkowski, S Naess, J Newman, MD Niemack, G Niz, L Page, N Palanque-Delabrouille, B Partridge, WJ Percival, F Prada, FJ Qu, G Rossi, E Sanchez, D Schlegel, M Schubnell, B Sherwin, N Sehgal, H Seo, C Sifón, D Spergel, D Sprayberry, S Staggs, G Tarlé, C Vargas, EM Vavagiakis, BA Weaver, EJ Wollack, R Zhou, H Zou
– Physical Review D
(2025)
112,
083509
The Simons Observatory: science goals and forecasts for the enhanced Large Aperture Telescope
M Abitbol, I Abril-Cabezas, S Adachi, P Ade, AE Adler, P Agrawal, J Aguirre, Z Ahmed, S Aiola, T Alford, A Ali, D Alonso, MA Alvarez, R An, K Arnold, P Ashton, Z Atkins, J Austermann, S Azzoni, C Baccigalupi, AB Lizancos, D Barron, P Barry, J Bartlett, N Battaglia, R Battye, E Baxter, A Bazarko, JA Beall, R Bean, D Beck, S Beckman, J Begin, A Beheshti, B Beringue, T Bhandarkar, S Bhimani, F Bianchini, E Biermann, S Biquard, B Bixler, S Boada, D Boettger, B Bolliet, JR Bond, J Borrill, J Borrow, C Braithwaite, TLR Brien, ML Brown, SM Bruno, S Bryan, R Bustos, H Cai, E Calabrese, V Calafut, FM Carl, A Carones, J Carron, A Challinor, P Chanial, N Chen, K Cheung, B Chiang, Y Chinone, J Chluba, HS Cho, SK Choi, M Chu, J Clancy, SE Clark, P Clarke, J Cleary, DL Clements, J Connors, C Contaldi, G Coppi, L Corbett, NF Cothard, W Coulton, KD Crowley, KT Crowley, A Cukierman, JM D'Ewart, K Dachlythra, R Datta, S Day-Weiss, T de Haan, M Devlin, L Di Mascolo, S Dicker, B Dober, C Doux, P Dow, S Doyle, CJ Duell, SM Duff, AJ Duivenvoorden, J Dunkley, D Dutcher, R Dünner, M Edenton, HE Bouhargani, J Errard, G Fabbian, V Fanfani, GS Farren, J Fergusson, S Ferraro, R Flauger, A Foster, K Freese, JC Frisch, A Frolov, G Fuller, N Galitzki, PA Gallardo, JTG Ghersi, K Ganga, J Gao, X Garrido, E Gawiser, M Gerbino, R Gerras, S Giardiello, A Gill, V Gilles, U Giri, E Gleave, V Gluscevic, N Goeckner-Wald, JE Golec, S Gordon, M Gralla, S Gratton, D Green, JC Groh, C Groppi, Y Guan, N Gupta, JE Gudmundsson, S Hagstotz, P Hargrave, S Haridas, K Harrington, I Harrison, M Hasegawa, M Hasselfield, V Haynes, M Hazumi, A He, E Healy, SW Henderson, BS Hensley, E Hertig, C Hervías-Caimapo, M Higuchi, CA Hill, JC Hill, G Hilton, M Hilton, AD Hincks, G Hinshaw, R Hložek, AYQ Ho, S Ho, SP Ho, TD Hoang, J Hoh, E Hornecker, AL Hornsby, SC Hotinli, Z Huang, ZB Huber, J Hubmayr, K Huffenberger, JP Hughes, AI Lonappan, M Ikape, K Irwin, J Iuliano, AH Jaffe, B Jain, HT Jense, O Jeong, A Johnson, BR Johnson, M Johnson, M Jones, B Jost, D Kaneko, ED Karpel, Y Kasai, N Katayama, B Keating, B Keller, R Keskitalo, J Kim, T Kisner, K Kiuchi, J Klein, K Knowles, AM Kofman, BJ Koopman, A Kosowsky, R Kou, N Krachmalnicoff, D Kramer, A Krishak, A Krolewski, A Kusaka, A Kusiak, P La Plante, A La Posta, A Laguë, J Lashner, M Lattanzi, A Lee, E Lee, J Leech, C Lessler, JS Leung, A Lewis, Y Li, Z Li, M Limon, L Lin, M Link, J Liu, Y Liu, J Lonergan, T Louis, T Lucas, M Ludlam, M Lungu, M Lyons, N MacCrann, A MacInnis, M Madhavacheril, D Mak, F Maldonado, M Mallaby-Kay, A Manduca, A Mangu, H Mani, AS Maniyar, GA Marques, J Mates, T Matsumura, P Mauskopf, A May, N McCallum, H McCarrick, F McCarthy, M McCulloch, J McMahon, PD Meerburg, Y Mehta, J Melin, J Meyers, A Middleton, A Miller, M Mirmelstein, K Moodley, J Moore, M Morshed, T Morton, E Moser, T Mroczkowski, M Murata, M Münchmeyer, S Naess, H Nakata, T Namikawa, M Nashimoto, F Nati, P Natoli, M Negrello, SK Nerval, L Newburgh, DV Nguyen, A Nicola, MD Niemack, H Nishino, Y Nishinomiya, A Orlando, J Orlowski-Scherer, L Pagano, LA Page, S Pandey, A Papageorgiou, I Paraskevakos, B Partridge, R Patki, M Peel, KP Sarmiento, F Perrotta, P Phakathi, L Piccirillo, E Pierpaoli, T Pinsonneault-Marotte, G Pisano, D Poletti, R Puddu, G Puglisi, FJ Qu, MJ Randall, C Ranucci, C Raum, R Reeves, CL Reichardt, M Remazeilles, Y Rephaeli, D Riechers, J Robe, MF Robertson, N Robertson, K Rogers, F Rojas, A Romero, E Rosenberg, A Rotti, S Rowe, A Roy, S Sadeh, N Sailer, K Sakaguri, T Sakuma, Y Sakurai, M Salatino, GH Sanders, D Sasaki, MS Rao, TP Satterthwaite, L Saunders, L Scalcinati, E Schaan, B Schmitt, M Schmittfull, N Sehgal, J Seibert, Y Seino, U Seljak, S Shaikh, E Shaw, P Shellard, B Sherwin, M Shimon, JE Shroyer, C Sierra, J Sievers, C Sifón, P Sikhosana, M Silva-Feaver, SM Simon, A Sinclair, K Smith, W Sohn, X Song, RF Sonka, D Spergel, J Spisak, ST Staggs, G Stein, JR Stevens, R Stompor, E Storer, R Sudiwala, J Sugiyama, KM Surrao, S Sutariya, A Suzuki, J Suzuki, O Tajima, S Takakura, A Takeuchi, I Tansieri, AC Taylor, G Teply, T Terasaki, A Thomas, DB Thomas, R Thornton, H Trac, T Tsan, ETK Sang, C Tucker, J Ullom, L Vacher, L Vale, A van Engelen, J Van Lanen, J van Marrewijk, DD Van Winkle, C Vargas, EM Vavagiakis, I Veenendaal, C Vergès, M Vissers, M Viña, K Wagoner, S Walker, L Walters, Y Wang, B Westbrook, J Williams, P Williams, H Winch, EJ Wollack, K Wolz, J Wong, Z Xu, K Yamada, E Young, B Yu, C Yu, M Zannoni, K Zheng, N Zhu, A Zonca, I Zubeldia, TSO collaboration
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2025)
2025,
034
Probing inflationary gravitational waves with cross-correlations: Improved forecasting and validation with simulations
T Namikawa, I Abril-Cabezas, BD Sherwin
– Physical Review D
(2025)
112,
01
Impact of Galactic non-Gaussian foregrounds on CMB lensing measurements
I Abril Cabezas
– Physical Review D
(2025)
112,
1
Accelerated inference on accelerated cosmic expansion: New constraints on axionlike early dark energy with DESI BAO and ACT DR6 CMB lensing
FJ Qu, KM Surrao, B Bolliet, JC Hill, BD Sherwin, HT Jense, A La Posta
– Physical Review D
(2025)
111,
123507
Cosmological constraints from the cross-correlation of DESI Luminous Red Galaxies with CMB lensing from Planck PR4 and ACT DR6
N Sailer, J Kim, S Ferraro, MS Madhavacheril, M White, I Abril-Cabezas, JN Aguilar, S Ahlen, JR Bond, D Brooks, E Burtin, E Calabrese, S-F Chen, SK Choi, T Claybaugh, K Dawson, A de la Macorra, J DeRose, A Dey, B Dey, P Doel, J Dunkley, C Embil-Villagra, GS Farren, A Font-Ribera, JE Forero-Romero, E Gaztañaga, V Gluscevic, SGA Gontcho, K Honscheid, C Howlett, S Juneau, D Kirkby, T Kisner, A Kremin, M Landriau, L Le Guillou, M Levi, M Manera, A Meisner, R Miquel, K Moodley, J Moustakas, MD Niemack, G Niz, N Palanque-Delabrouille, W Percival, F Prada, FJ Qu, G Rossi, E Sanchez, E Schaan, E Schlafly, D Schlegel, M Schubnell, N Sehgal, H-J Seo, B Sherwin, C Sifón, D Sprayberry, ST Staggs, G Tarlé, BA Weaver, C Yèche, R Zhou, H Zou
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2025)
2025,
008
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Large-scale velocity reconstruction with the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and DESI LRGs
F McCarthy, N Battaglia, R Bean, JR Bond, H Cai, E Calabrese, WR Coulton, MJ Devlin, J Dunkley, S Ferraro, V Gluscevic, Y Guan, JC Hill, MC Johnson, A Kusiak, A Laguë, N MacCrann, MS Madhavacheril, K Moodley, S Naess, FJ Qu, BR Guachalla, N Sehgal, BD Sherwin, C Sifón, KM Smith, ST Staggs, A van Engelen, EM Vavagiakis, EJ Wollack
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2025)
2025,
057
Atacama Cosmology Telescope DR6 and DESI: Structure growth measurements from the cross-correlation of DESI legacy imaging galaxies and CMB lensing from ACT DR6 and Planck PR4
FJ Qu, Q Hang, G Farren, B Bolliet, JN Aguilar, S Ahlen, S Alam, D Brooks, Y-C Cai, E Calabrese, T Claybaugh, A de la Macorra, MJ Devlin, P Doel, C Embil-Villagra, S Ferraro, A Font-Ribera, JE Forero-Romero, E Gaztañaga, V Gluscevic, SGA Gontcho, G Gutierrez, C Howlett, R Kehoe, J Kim, A Kremin, A Lambert, M Landriau, L Le Guillou, M Levi, T Louis, A Meisner, R Miquel, J Moustakas, JA Newman, G Niz, JA Peacock, W Percival, C Poppett, F Prada, I Pérez-Ràfols, G Rossi, E Sanchez, D Schlegel, N Sehgal, S Shaikh, B Sherwin, C Sifón, M Schubnell, D Sprayberry, G Tarlé, BA Weaver, EJ Wollack, H Zou
– Physical Review D
(2025)
111,
103503
Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Multiprobe cosmology with unWISE galaxies and ACT DR6 CMB lensing
GS Farren, A Krolewski, FJ Qu, S Ferraro, E Calabrese, J Dunkley, CE Villagra, JC Hill, J Kim, MS Madhavacheril, K Moodley, LA Page, B Partridge, N Sehgal, BD Sherwin, C Sifón, ST Staggs, A Van Engelen, EJ Wollack
– Physical Review D
(2025)
111,
083516
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Relativity and Gravitation

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