Benjamin D. Wandelt

Professor Benjamin D. Wandelt is a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, holding joint appointments in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics. He is affiliated with the Data Science and AI Institute, contributing to interdisciplinary research at the intersection of cosmology, physics, and computational sciences.

• Research focuses on theoretical, computational, and statistical astrophysics
• Connects fundamental physics with observational astronomical data
• Established Cosmology@Home, a participatory computing platform with >60,000 members

Key affiliations:

• Sorbonne University (International Chair of Theoretical Cosmology)
• Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
• Institut Lagrange de Paris (founding co-director 2011, director 2014)
• Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics (since 2017)
• Visiting faculty roles at Max Planck Institute, Caltech, Princeton, IAS, and NYU

Scientific recognition:

• 2018 Gruber Prize in Cosmology
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize
• Sofja Kovalevskaja Award
• ANR Senior Excellence Chair
• Fellow of American Physical Society and International Association of Astrostatisticians