Philip Mocz
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BornDecember 3, 1989
AlmamaterHarvard University (AB, PhD)
AwardsBuchalter Cosmology Prize (2020)
Keto Award (2017)
Intel Science Talent Search (2008)
Keto Award (2017)
Intel Science Talent Search (2008)
Philip Mocz | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 3, 1989 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (AB, PhD) |
| Awards | Buchalter Cosmology Prize (2020) Keto Award (2017) Intel Science Talent Search (2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics Computational Physics |
| Institutions | Flatiron Institute Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Princeton University |
| Thesis | Moving Mesh Magnetohydrodynamics: Magnetic Processes in Star Formation and Cosmology (2017) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lars Hernquist |
Philip Mocz (born December 3, 1989) is an American astrophysicist and software engineer at the Flatiron Institute.[1]
He graduated from Harvard University with an AB in Mathematics and Astrophysics in 2012, and a PhD in astrophysics, in 2017.[2]
Awards
- Buchalter Cosmology Prize (2020)[3] in recognition of his work on cosmological simulations of scalar-field dark matter
- Keto Award (2017)[4] for his PhD thesis "Moving Mesh Magnetohydrodynamics: Magnetic Processes in Star Formation and Cosmology"
- Intel Science Talent Search (2008)[5] winner
