| George Petros Efstathiou | |
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| Born | September 2, 1955 |
| Fields | Cosmology |
| Institutions | University of California Berkeley Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University of Oxford |
| Alma mater | Keble College, Oxford University of Durham |
| Notable awards | Maxwell Medal and Prize (1990) Heineman Prize (2005) Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2011) |
George Petros Efstathiou FRS (born 2 September 1955) is a British astrophysicist who is Professor of Astrophysics and Director of the Kavli Institute of Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. He was previously Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford.
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Efstathiou was educated at Somerset Comprehensive School before studying at Keble College, Oxford and the University of Durham. He was a research assistant in the Astronomy Department of University of California Berkeley from 1979 to 1980, then moved to the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, holding research fellowships at King's College, Cambridge from 1980 to 1988. He was Head of Astrophysics at the Institute from 1988 to 1994, when he was appointed the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford (a post that he held in conjunction with a fellowship at New College, Oxford. He returned to Cambridge in 1997 as Professor of Astrophysics and a Fellow of King's College. He became Director of the Kavli Institute of Cosmology in 2008.[1]
He was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 1990, and appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994, the same year in which he was awarded the Bodossaki Foundation Academic and Cultural Prize for Astrophysics. Other awards in the Robinson Prize in Cosmology (University of Newcastle, 1997) and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (American Institute of Physics and American Astronomical Society, 2005).[1] He received the Gruber Prize in Cosmology for 2011 jointly with Marc Davis, Carlos Frenk and Simon White.