Matias Zaldarriaga

Matias Zaldarriaga is Richard Black Professor of Astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study. He has contributed to knowledge of the early universe, particle astrophysics, and cosmology as a probe of fundamental physics. Much of his work centers on understanding the clues about the earliest moments of our universe encoded in the Cosmic Microwave Background, the faint glow of radiation generated by the Big Bang, and in the distribution of matter in the late universe.

Zaldarriaga is a member of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales and the National Academy of Sciences. He has received numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the Gruber Cosmology Prize. Previously a member of the faculties of Harvard University and New York University, he earned his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.