Oliver Henry Edward Philcox

Oliver Henry Edward Philcox

Research Interest

I am a Junior Fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows, hosted at Columbia University with Colin Hill and Lam Hui. Previously, I was a doctoral student at Princeton University’s Department of Astrophysical Sciences and a visiting graduate student at the Institute for Advanced Study, both located in Princeton, New Jersey. I was advised by David Spergel and Matias Zaldarriaga. Originally from the south of England, I completed my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy with Blake Sherwin, before spending a year in Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics with Daniel Eisenstein.

I’m broadly interested in theoretical and statistical cosmology, in particular the testing of conventional and novel physics with Large Scale Structure and the Cosmic Microwave Background. I have additional interests beyond cosmology, primarily in blackboard-and-chalk style physics.

I got bitten by a piranha in Bolivia.