Professor Richard Ellis CBE FAA FRS has been awarded the 2023 Gruber Cosmology Prize.
This prize honours a leading cosmologist, astronomer, astrophysicist or scientific philosopher for theoretical, analytical, conceptual or observational discoveries leading to fundamental advances in our understanding of the Universe.
Admitted to the Australian Academy of Science as a Corresponding Member in 2018, Professor Ellis is a distinguished astronomer at University College London.
His main area of research is in observational cosmology, studying the origin and evolution of galaxies, the growth of large-scale structure in the Universe and the nature and distribution of dark matter.
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