Shaun Malcolm Cole (born 19 November 1963) is a British cosmologist. Cole grew up in Chipping, Lancashire. He graduated from Jesus College, Oxford with a first-class degree in Physics in 1985, and subsequently completed

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at the

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. His performance in Part III was strong enough to earn a studentship for a PhD at the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy. Cole has been Professor of Physics at

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since 2005 and is the current director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology. He was joint-winner of the 2014 Shaw Prize with Daniel Eisenstein and John A. Peacock.

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