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Residence
  
United States

Role
  
Cosmologist

Name
  
Matias Zaldarriaga


Known for
  
CMBFAST code

Citizenship
  
Argentine

Awards
  
MacArthur Fellowship

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Institutions
  
Institute for Advanced Study

Notable awards
  
MacArthur Fellows Program Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (2003) Gribov Medal

Education
  
University of Buenos Aires

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Matias Zaldarriaga is an Argentine cosmologist.

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Life

Born in Coghlan neighbourhood, Buenos Aires, at the present time he works in the Institute for Advanced Study located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. He is known especially for his work on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Together with Uros Seljak, he developed the CMBFAST code, the first computationally efficient method for computing the anisotropy of the CMB for an arbitrary set of cosmological parameters.

Awards

In 2003, he was awarded the Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society, and in 2005 he won the Gribov Medal of the European Physical Society. In 2006, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.

References

Matias Zaldarriaga Wikipedia