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 Ben Moore  is an English professor of astrophysicist, author, musician, and director of the Center for Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Zürich. His research is focussed on cosmology, gravity, astroparticle physics, and planet formation. He has authored in excess of 200 scientific papers on the origin of planets and galaxies, as well as dark matter and dark energy. In his research, he simulates the universe using custom-built supercomputers.

Biography
Moore gained his PhD from Durham University in 1991, and then spent several years as a research associate at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Books
He has written popular science books for adults and children, including "Elephants in Space - The Past, the Present and Future of Life and the Universe" which was a best-seller. His last book "Da draussen – Leben auf unserem Planeten und anderswo" (Out there, life on our planets and elsewhere) was also translated from German into Dutch ('Hallo daar! De zoektocht naar leven elders in het universum').

Music
Under his artist name ‘Professor Moore’, he creates electro-rock music. He plays the guitar with the electro-rock band Milk67 and featured together with them in a float at the 2010 Zurich Street Parade. In 2014 he released a solo album called "Escape Velocity".

Selected publications

 * S. Elser, M.R. Meyer, B. Moore On the origin of elemental abundances in the terrestrial planets 2012, Icarus, 221, 859-874.


 * A.W. Graham, L.R. Spitler, D.A. Forbes, T Lisker, B Moore, J Janz LEDA 074886: A Remarkable Rectangular-looking Galaxy 2012, ApJ, 750, 121.


 * S. Elser, B. Moore, J. Stadel, R. Morishima How common are Earth-Moon planetary systems? 2011, Icarus, 214, 357-365.


 * O Agertz, R Teyssier, B Moore The formation of disc galaxies in a ΛCDM universe 2011, MNRAS, 410, 1391-1408.


 * R Morishima, J Stadel, B Moore From planetesimals to terrestrial planets: N-body simulations including the effects of nebular gas and giant planets 2010, Icarus, 207, 517-535.


 * J Diemand, M Kuhlen, P Madau, M Zemp, B Moore, D Potter, J Stadel Clumps and streams in the dark matter distribution 2008, Nature, 454, 735.


 * B Moore, J Diemand, P Madau, M Zemp, J Stadel Globular clusters, satellite galaxies and stellar haloes from early dark matter peaks 2006, MNRAS, 368 (2), 563-570.


 * B Moore, S Ghigna, F Governato, G Lake, T Quinn, J Stadel, P Tozzi, Dark matter substructure within Galactic haloes 1999, ApJ, 524, 19.


 * B Moore, N Katz, G Lake, A Dressler, A Oemler, Galaxy harassment and the evolution of galaxy clusters 1996, Nature, 379, 613.


 * J Diemand, B Moore, J Stadel, Earth-mass dark-matter haloes in the early Universe 2005, Nature, 433, 389.