Philip Mocz
Philip Mocz | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 3, 1989 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (AB, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics Computational Physics |
| Workplaces | Flatiron Institute Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Princeton University |
| Thesis | Moving Mesh Magnetohydrodynamics: Magnetic Processes in Star Formation and Cosmology (2017) |
| Lars Hernquist | |
Philip Mocz (born December 3, 1989) is an American astrophysicist and software engineer at the Flatiron Institute.[1]
Life
He graduated from Harvard University with an AB in Mathematics and Astrophysics in 2012, and a PhD in astrophysics, in 2017.[2]
Awards
- Buchalter Cosmology Prize (2020)[3] in recognition of his work on cosmological simulations of scalar-field dark matter
- Keto Award (2017)[4] for his PhD thesis "Moving Mesh Magnetohydrodynamics: Magnetic Processes in Star Formation and Cosmology"
- Intel Science Talent Search (2008)[5] winner
Works
- "First Star-Forming Structures in Fuzzy Cosmic Filaments", Physical Review Letters, Authors: P. Mocz, A. Fialkov, M. Vogelsberger, F. Becerra, M.A. Amin, S. Bose, M. Boylan-Kolchin, P.-H. Chavanis, L. Hernquist, L. Lancaster, F. Marinacci, V.H. Robles, J. Zavala.
References
External links
- "Philip Mocz", Simons Foundation
- "Waves from the Early Universe", Nature
- Journal articles by Philip Mocz in the ADS database