Cosmology & Gravitation

Cosmologists at PI combine recent developments at the interface of astrophysics and fundamental physics to shed light on some of the major puzzles in the field: What is causing the observed cosmic acceleration? What is the nature of the dark matter? What can be learned from microwave background and large scale structure observations about theories of fundamental physics? Is inflation the correct paradigm of early-universe cosmology?

In addition to the researchers listed below, PI has five Distinguished Research Chairs who work in cosmology: Gia Dvali, Stephen Hawking, Frans Pretorius, Leonard Susskind, and Mark Wise.

Researchers:

	Niayesh Afshordi Associate Faculty PhD Princeton (2004)
	Latham Boyle Faculty PhD Princeton (2006)
	Avery Broderick Associate Faculty PhD Caltech (2004) Affiliation: University of Waterloo
	Cliff Burgess Associate Faculty PhD Texas(1985) Affiliation: McMaster
	Luis Lehner Associate Faculty PhD University of Pittsburgh (1998)
	Neil Turok Director PhD Imperial College (1983)
	John Moffat Senior Research Affiliate PhD Cambridge(1958)
	Rafael Sorkin Senior Researcher PhD Caltech (1974)
	Tibra Ali PSI Fellow PhD Cambridge University (2002)
	Shant Baghramian Associate Postdoctoral Researcher PhD Sharif University of Technology (2011) Affiliation: University of Waterloo
	Ido Ben-Dayan Postdoctoral Researcher PhD Ben-Gurion University (2011)
	Keith Copsey Postdoctoral Researcher PhD University of California, Santa Barbara (2007)
	Adrienne Erickcek Postdoctoral Researcher PhD Caltech (2009)
	Tom Giblin Postdoctoral Researcher PhD Yale (2008)
	Chad Hanna Postdoctoral Researcher PhD Louisiana State University (2008)
	Matthew Johnson Postdoctoral Researcher PhD UC Santa Cruz (2007)
	Takeshi Kobayashi Associate Postdoctoral Researcher PhD University of Tokyo (2011) Affiliation: CITA
	Anna Kostouki PSI Fellow PhD King's College London (2010)
	David Kubiznak PSI Fellow PhD University of Alberta (2008)
	Louis Leblond Postdoctoral Researcher PhD Cornell (2006)
	Paul McFadden Postdoctoral Researcher PhD University of Cambridge (2006)
	Erik Schnetter Adjunct Faculty (University of Guelph)/Research Technologies Group Lead PhD Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen (2003)
	Misha Smolkin Postdoctoral Researcher PhD Hebrew University (2009)
	Daniel Wohns PSI Fellow PhD Cornell (2011)
	Siavash Aslanbeigi Graduate Student Affiliation: University of Waterloo
	Shane Farnsworth Graduate Student Affiliation: University of Waterloo
	Elizabeth Gould Graduate Student Affiliation: University of Waterloo
	Eileen Manion-Fischer Graduate Student Affiliation: University of Guelph
	Mehdi Saravani Graduate Student Affiliation: University of Waterloo
	Yosdanis Vazquez Ponce Graduate Student Affiliation: University of Waterloo