Career

• 2024-: Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
• 2022-2024: Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics (Grade 11), DAMTP, University of Cambridge
• 2017-2022: Assistant Professor, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
• 2017-2022: STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
• 2016-2017: NASA Einstein Fellow, Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
• 2013-2016: Miller Research Fellow, Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
• 2008-2013: Ph.D. in Physics, Princeton University
• 2004-2008: Part III Mathematics and Parts I/II NST Physics, University of Cambridge

Research Interests

Blake is a theoretical and observational cosmologist. He has research interests across CMB and large-scale structure, with a particular focus on measurements of the gravitational lensing of the CMB.

Research Group

Blake leads the CMBLENS project, funded by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. Group members include:

Postdoctoral and senior researchers: 

Boris Bolliet (Senior Research Associate)

Fiona McCarthy (joint with Flatiron CCA)

Niall MacCrann (now Royal Society University Research Fellow)

PhD students:

Frank Qu

Gerrit Farren

Irene Abril Cabezas

Carmen Embil-Villagra

Former group members and next steps:

Toshiya Namikawa (postdoc -> Project Assistant Professor, IPMU), Dongwon Han (postdoc -> tech. industry), Omar Darwish (PhD -> postdoc U Geneva); Boryana Hadzhiyska (Masters -> PhD Harvard); Oliver Philcox (Masters -> PhD Princeton); Alex Reeves (Masters-> PhD ETH Zurich)