Shaun Cole

This article is about the British cosmologist. For the American baseball coach, see Shaun Cole (baseball).

Shaun Malcolm Cole (born 19 November 1963) is a British cosmologist.

Shaun Cole
Born	Chipping, Lancashire, England
Alma mater	Jesus College, Oxford Clare College, Cambridge
Known for	Discovery of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, Semi-analytical Models in Galaxy Formation
Awards	Shaw Prize (2014)
Scientific career
Fields	Cosmology, Galaxy formation, Galactic Astronomy
Institutions	University of California Berkeley Durham University
Doctoral advisor	George Efstathiou and Nick Kaiser
Website	star-www.dur.ac.uk/~cole

Cole grew up in Chipping, Lancashire.^[1] He graduated from Jesus College, Oxford with a first-class degree in Physics in 1985, and subsequently completed Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge. His performance in Part III was strong enough to earn a studentship for a PhD at the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy.^[1]

Cole has been Professor of Physics at Durham University since 2005 and is the current director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology.^[2][3][4] He was joint-winner of the 2014 Shaw Prize with Daniel Eisenstein and John A. Peacock.^[5]