User:Tomiarctur/Uros seljak

Uros Seljak in a Slovenian cosmologist, born on 13th of May 1966 in Nova Gorica. He received his B.S. in 1989 and M.S. in 1991 from Ljubljana University, Slovenia, and his PhD in 1995 from MIT. He was a Smithsonian Fellow at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 1995 to 1998. Subsequently he served as a faculty at Princeton University (1999-2006), ICTP Trieste (2005-2007) and Zurich University (2006-present). He joined Astronomy faculty at University of California, Berkeley in 2008, jointly appointed with physics and The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

In 2001 he won the Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy which is awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society to a young astronomer. Together with Matias Zaldarriaga, he developed the CMBFAST code, the first computationally efficient method for computing the anisotropy of the CMB for an arbitrary set of cosmological parameters. His specialty areas are: theoretical, observational and numerical astrophysics and cosmology: large scale structure of the universe, cosmic microwave background, dark matter and dark energy, cosmological simulations.