Carlos Frenk
Carlos Silvestre Frenk | |
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Frenk in 2012 | |
| Born | 27 October 1951 |
| Citizenship | British, Mexican |
| Alma mater | National Autonomous University of Mexico (BSc) University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Known for | Navarro–Frenk–White profile |
| Spouse | Susan Frenk |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Julio Frenk (brother) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions | Durham University University of Sussex University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Globular clusters in the galaxy and in the Large Magellanic Cloud (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bernard J. T. Jones |
| Doctoral students | Ben Moore Gillian Wilson |
| Website | astro |
Carlos Silvestre Frenk CBE FRS (born 27 October 1951) is a Mexican-British cosmologist. He has been Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University since 2001 and was director of the university’s Institute for Computational Cosmology from 2001 to 2020. Frenk is known for his work on galaxy formation, dark matter, and cosmological simulations.