Prof Jens Chluba

Professor of Cosmology

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Overview

My research is driven by the exciting prospects of extracting detailed information about our Universe from observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), exploiting both its anisotropies and frequency spectrum. Through my work I became a leading expert on cosmological recombination physics, CMB spectral distortions caused by early-energy release, and the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect. I am the author of several software packages (CosmoRec, CosmoTherm, CosmoSpec and SZpack) that allow precise computations of unique signals from the early Universe.

Biography

June 2019 –                 Professor of Cosmology / Royal Society URF at the JBCA, University of Manchester
 
June 2017 – May 2019 Reader / Royal Society URF at the JBCA, University of Manchester
 
Jan. 2016 – May 2017 Lecturer / Royal Society URF at the JBCA, University of Manchester
 
Jan. 2015 – Dec. 2015  Royal Society URF at the IoA, Cambridge University

Oct. 2012 – Dec. 2014   Associate Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University

Sept. 2011 – Sept. 2012 Senior Research Associate at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
 
Oct. 2008 – Aug. 2011  Postdoctoral Researcher at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
 
Sept. 2005 – Sept. 2008 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut for Astrophysics

March 2005 – Aug. 2005 Research Fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institut for Astrophysics
 

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Publications

Refined modelling of the radio SZ signal: kinematic terms, relativistic temperature corrections, and anisotropies in the radio background

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Removing the giants and learning from the crowd: A new SZ power spectrum method and revised Compton y-map analysis

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Peeling off foregrounds with the constrained moment ILC method to unveil primordial CMB B modes

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Student Theses

Non-Standard Mechanisms for Cosmic Microwave Background B-mode Production

UoM administered thesis: Phd

Simulations and Phenomenology of Topological Defects in Two Higgs Doublet Models

UoM administered thesis: Phd

Probing the Recombination History with the CMB Anisotropies and Spectral Distortions

UoM administered thesis: Phd

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