Jens Chluba

Overview

My research is driven by the exciting prospects of extracting detailed information about our Universe from observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), exploiting both its anisotropies and frequency spectrum. Through my work I became a leading expert on cosmological recombination physics, CMB spectral distortions caused by early-energy release, and the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect. I am the author of several software packages (CosmoRec, CosmoTherm, CosmoSpec and SZpack) that allow precise computations of unique signals from the early Universe.

Biography

Jan. 2016 –                    Royal Society URF (proleptic Lecturer) at the JBCA, University of Manchester

Jan. 2015 – Dec. 2015  Royal Society URF at the IoA, Cambridge University

Oct. 2012 – Dec. 2014   Associate Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University

Sept. 2011 – Sept. 2012 Senior Research Associate at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

Oct. 2008 – Aug. 2011  Postdoctoral Researcher at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

Sept. 2005 – Sept. 2008 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut for Astrophysics

March 2005 – Aug. 2005 Research Fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institut for Astrophysics