Roger Blandford Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University Pehong and Adele Chen Director, Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology Professor of Physics at Stanford University and at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Mailing address: KIPAC, MS 29 PO Box 20450 Stanford, CA 94309 Phone: 650-926-2606 Fax: 650-725-4096 Admin: 650-736-8527 Email: rdb3@stanford.edu

Research Interests

Research interests include: cosmology; black hole astrophysics, gravitational lensing; galaxies; cosmic rays; neutron stars; white dwarfs.

• Cosmology
• Theoretical Astrophysics

Career History

• B.A., 1970, Magdalene College, Cambridge.
• M.A.,1974, Univ. of Cambridge
• Ph.D., 1974, Magdalene College, Cambridge
• Research Fellow, St. John’s College, Cambridge, 1973-1976
• Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology, 1976-1979
• Professor, California Institute of Technology, 1979-1989
• Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1989-2003
• Executive Officer for Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1992-1995
• Professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and of Physics; Pehong and Adele Chen Director, Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2003-present.

• Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1974-1975 and 1998
• Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1980-1984
• Helen B. Warner Prize, American Astronomical Society, 1982
• Guggenheim Fellow, 1988-1990
• Fellow of Royal Society, 1989
• Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993
• Dannie Heineman Prize, American Astronomical Society, 1998
• Member, American Astronomical Society.
• Eddington Medal, Royal Astronomical Society, 1999
  
• Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2005
  

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