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Cosmology Physics

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UC Santa Cruz

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Anthony Aguirre


Anthony Aguirre

Institution
  
University of California, Santa Cruz

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Anthony Aguirre is a theoretical cosmologist. Aguirre is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the associate director of the Foundational Questions Institute. He is also a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute.

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Education

Aguirre received a B.S. in Mathematics/Physics from Brown University in 1995. An M.S. in Astronomy from Harvard University in 1998. A Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University.

Career

His research has focused on various topics in theoretical physics among which early universe, inflation, gravity physics, first stars, the intergalactic medium, galaxy formation and black holes.

Together with Max Tegmark he developed the cosmological interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Personal life

He is married to artist Sally Aguirre. They have two sons.

In the media

  • Aguirre appears in the How Vast is the Cosmos? part of the Closer to Truth PBS series.
  • Aguirre appears in "How Big is the Universe?"
  • Aguirre also appears in the "Living in a Parallel Universe" part of the Naked Science documentary on the National Geographic Channel.
  • References

    Anthony Aguirre Wikipedia