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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

Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Constraints on cosmic birefringence
T Namikawa, Y Guan, O Darwish, BD Sherwin, S Aiola, N Battaglia, JA Beall, DT Becker, JR Bond, E Calabrese, GE Chesmore, SK Choi, MJ Devlin, J Dunkley, R Dünner, AE Fox, PA Gallardo, V Gluscevic, D Han, M Hasselfield, GC Hilton, AD Hincks, R HloŽek, J Hubmayr, K Huffenberger, JP Hughes, BJ Koopman, A Kosowsky, T Louis, M Lungu, A Macinnis, MS Madhavacheril, M Mallaby-Kay, L Maurin, J Mcmahon, K Moodley, S Naess, F Nati, LB Newburgh, JP Nibarger, MD Niemack, LA Page, FJ Qu, N Robertson, A Schillaci, N Sehgal, C Sifón, SM Simon, DN Spergel, ST Staggs, ER Storer, A Van Engelen, J Van Lanen, EJ Wollack
(2020)
Internal Delensing of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization B-Modes with the POLARBEAR Experiment
S Adachi, MAO Aguilar Faúndez, Y Akiba, A Ali, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Beck, F Bianchini, J Borrill, J Carron, K Cheung, Y Chinone, K Crowley, H El Bouhargani, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, C Feng, T Fujino, N Goeckner-Wald, M Hasegawa, M Hazumi, CA Hill, L Howe, N Katayama, B Keating, S Kikuchi, A Kusaka, AT Lee, D Leon, E Linder, LN Lowry, F Matsuda, T Matsumura, Y Minami, T Namikawa, M Navaroli, H Nishino, J Peloton, ATP Pham, D Poletti, G Puglisi, CL Reichardt, Y Segawa, BD Sherwin, M Silva-Feaver, P Siritanasak, R Stompor, O Tajima, S Takatori, D Tanabe, GP Teply, C Vergès, POLARBEAR Collaboration
– Physical Review Letters
(2020)
124,
131301
Updated Design of the CMB Polarization Experiment Satellite LiteBIRD
H Sugai, PAR Ade, Y Akiba, D Alonso, K Arnold, J Aumont, J Austermann, C Baccigalupi, AJ Banday, R Banerji, RB Barreiro, S Basak, J Beall, S Beckman, M Bersanelli, J Borrill, F Boulanger, ML Brown, M Bucher, A Buzzelli, E Calabrese, FJ Casas, A Challinor, V Chan, Y Chinone, JF Cliche, F Columbro, A Cukierman, D Curtis, P Danto, P de Bernardis, T de Haan, M De Petris, C Dickinson, M Dobbs, T Dotani, L Duband, A Ducout, S Duff, A Duivenvoorden, JM Duval, K Ebisawa, T Elleflot, H Enokida, HK Eriksen, J Errard, T Essinger-Hileman, F Finelli, R Flauger, C Franceschet, U Fuskeland, K Ganga, JR Gao, R Génova-Santos, T Ghigna, A Gomez, ML Gradziel, J Grain, F Grupp, A Gruppuso, JE Gudmundsson, NW Halverson, P Hargrave, T Hasebe, M Hasegawa, M Hattori, M Hazumi, S Henrot-Versille, D Herranz, C Hill, G Hilton, Y Hirota, E Hivon, R Hlozek, DT Hoang, J Hubmayr, K Ichiki, T Iida, H Imada, K Ishimura, H Ishino, GC Jaehnig, M Jones, T Kaga, S Kashima, Y Kataoka, N Katayama, T Kawasaki, R Keskitalo, A Kibayashi, T Kikuchi, K Kimura, T Kisner, Y Kobayashi, N Kogiso, A Kogut, K Kohri, E Komatsu, K Komatsu, K Konishi
– Journal of Low Temperature Physics
(2020)
199,
1107
Cross-correlation of CMB Polarization Lensing with High-z Submillimeter Herschel-ATLAS Galaxies
MA Faúndez, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Beck, F Bianchini, D Boettger, J Borrill, J Carron, K Cheung, Y Chinone, HE Bouhargani, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, C Feng, N Galitzki, N Goeckner-Wald, M Hasegawa, M Hazumi, L Howe, D Kaneko, N Katayama, B Keating, N Krachmalnicoff, A Kusaka, AT Lee, D Leon, E Linder, LN Lowry, F Matsuda, Y Minami, M Navaroli, H Nishino, ATP Pham, D Poletti, G Puglisi, CL Reichardt, BD Sherwin, M Silva-Feaver, R Stompor, A Suzuki, O Tajima, S Takakura, S Takatori, GP Teply, C Tsai, C Vergès
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2019)
886,
38
Evidence for the Cross-correlation between Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing from Polarbear and Cosmic Shear from Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam
T Namikawa, Y Chinone, H Miyatake, M Oguri, R Takahashi, A Kusaka, N Katayama, S Adachi, M Aguilar, H Aihara, A Ali, R Armstrong, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Beck, S Beckman, F Bianchini, D Boettger, J Borrill, K Cheung, L Corbett, KT Crowley, HE Bouhargani, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, C Feng, N Galitzki, N Goeckner-Wald, J Groh, T Hamada, M Hasegawa, M Hazumi, CA Hill, L Howe, O Jeong, D Kaneko, B Keating, AT Lee, D Leon, E Linder, LN Lowry, A Mangu, F Matsuda, Y Minami, S Miyazaki, H Murayama, M Navaroli, H Nishino, AJ Nishizawa, ATP Pham, D Poletti, G Puglisi, CL Reichardt, BD Sherwin, M Silva-Feaver, P Siritanasak, JS Speagle, R Stompor, A Suzuki, PJ Tait, O Tajima, M Takada, S Takakura, S Takatori, D Tanabe, M Tanaka, GP Teply, C Tsai, C Vergés, B Westbrook, Y Zhou
– Astrophysical Journal
(2019)
882,
62
Improving small-scale CMB lensing reconstruction
B Hadzhiyska, BD Sherwin, M Madhavacheril, S Ferraro
– Physical Review D
(2019)
100,
023547
Constraining the rotational kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in massive galaxy clusters
EJ Baxter, BD Sherwin, S Raghunathan
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2019)
2019,
001
Weak-lensing Mass Calibration of ACTPol Sunyaev–Zel’dovich Clusters with the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey
H Miyatake, N Battaglia, M Hilton, E Medezinski, AJ Nishizawa, S More, S Aiola, N Bahcall, JR Bond, E Calabrese, SK Choi, MJ Devlin, J Dunkley, R Dunner, B Fuzia, P Gallardo, M Gralla, M Hasselfield, M Halpern, C Hikage, JC Hill, AD Hincks, R Hložek, K Huffenberger, JP Hughes, B Koopman, A Kosowsky, T Louis, MS Madhavacheril, J McMahon, R Mandelbaum, TA Marriage, L Maurin, S Miyazaki, K Moodley, R Murata, S Naess, L Newburgh, MD Niemack, T Nishimichi, N Okabe, M Oguri, K Osato, L Page, B Partridge, N Robertson, N Sehgal, B Sherwin, M Shirasaki, J Sievers, C Sifón, S Simon, DN Spergel, ST Staggs, G Stein, M Takada, H Trac, K Umetsu, AV Engelen, EJ Wollack
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2019)
875,
63
Reconstructing small-scale lenses from the cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations
B Horowitz, S Ferraro, BD Sherwin
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2019)
485,
3919
The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts
P Ade, J Aguirre, Z Ahmed, S Aiola, A Ali, D Alonso, MA Alvarez, K Arnold, P Ashton, J Austermann, H Awan, C Baccigalupi, T Baildon, D Barron, N Battaglia, R Battye, E Baxter, A Bazarko, JA Beall, R Bean, D Beck, S Beckman, B Beringue, F Bianchini, S Boada, D Boettger, JR Bond, J Borrill, ML Brown, SM Bruno, S Bryan, E Calabrese, V Calafut, P Calisse, J Carron, A Challinor, G Chesmore, Y Chinone, J Chluba, HMS Cho, S Choi, G Coppi, NF Cothard, K Coughlin, D Crichton, KD Crowley, KT Crowley, A Cukierman, JM D'Ewart, R Dünner, T De Haan, M Devlin, S Dicker, J Didier, M Dobbs, B Dober, CJ Duell, S Duff, A Duivenvoorden, J Dunkley, J Dusatko, J Errard, G Fabbian, S Feeney, S Ferraro, P Fluxà, K Freese, JC Frisch, A Frolov, G Fuller, B Fuzia, N Galitzki, PA Gallardo, JTG Ghersi, J Gao, E Gawiser, M Gerbino, V Gluscevic, N Goeckner-Wald, J Golec, S Gordon, M Gralla, D Green, A Grigorian, J Groh, C Groppi, Y Guan, JE Gudmundsson, D Han, P Hargrave, M Hasegawa, M Hasselfield, M Hattori, V Haynes, M Hazumi, Y He, E Healy, SW Henderson, C Hervias-Caimapo, CA Hill
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2019)
2019,
056
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Relativity and Gravitation

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