Carlos Frenk


Carlos Silvestre Frenk, is a Mexican-British-German cosmologist. His main interests lie in the field of cosmology, galaxy formation and computer simulations of cosmic structure formation.

Education

Frenk was educated at the University of Mexico and went on to study for a PhD in astronomy at the University of Cambridge where his thesis was supervised by Bernard J. T. Jones and awarded in 1981.

Career and research

Frenk was the inaugural Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University in 2001 following an endowment by Peter Ogden, and still holds the position today. He is Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham, which is part of the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics. He is also co-Principal Investigator of the Virgo Consortium, alongside Simon White.

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004 and is a member of the Royal Society's Council. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2014. Other awards and honours include:
Frenk was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to cosmology and the public dissemination of basic science. He was interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs, first broadcast in 2018.