Jeremy R. Mould (born 31 July 1949 Bristol) is an Australian astronomer currently at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology [1]. Mould was previously Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University and the American National Optical Astronomy Observatory [2]. He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow, at the University of Melbourne.[3]
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He immigrated to Australia in 1963. He graduated from the University of Melbourne, and Australian National University with a PhD.[4] He was research fellow at Kitt Peak National Observatory, and professor at the California Institute of Technology.
According to ISI Highly Cited he is among the highest cited astronomers in the world [5]. Asteroid 18240 Mould is named in his honour. Mould was awarded the George Van Biesbroeck Prize in 1981 with Marc Aaronson, the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy in 1984 with Marc Aaronson, and the Gruber Prize in Cosmology in 2009 with Wendy Freedman and Robert Kennicutt.