Biography:


Education
Ph.D., Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1974
M.A., Univ. of Cambridge, 1974
B.A., Magdalene College, Cambridge,1970

Positions Held
-Pehong and Adele Chen Professor of Physics and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and Director, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 2003-present.
-Member, American Astronomical Society.
-Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical

Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1989-2003
-Dannie Heineman Prize, American Astronomical Society, 1998
-Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1974-1975 and 1998
-Executive Officer for Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1992-1995
-Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993
-Guggenheim Fellow, 1988-1990
-Fellow of Royal Society, 1989
-Professor, California Institute of Technology, 1979-1989
-Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1980-1984
-Helen B. Warner Prize, American Astronomical Society, 1982
-Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology, 1976-1979
-Research Fellow, St. John’s College, Cambridge, 1973-1976

Research Interests
Research interests include: cosmology; black hole astrophysics, gravitational lensing; galaxies; cosmic rays; neutron stars; white dwarfs.