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David Nathaniel Spergel is an American theoretical astrophysicist and the Emeritus Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation at Princeton University. Since 2021, he has been the President of the Simons Foundation. He is known for his work on the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) project.
I am a astrophysicist with research interests ranging from the search for planets around nearby stars to the shape of the universe. Using microwave backcground observations from the WMAP Satellite and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope" , I have measured the age, shape, and composition of the universe.
Jan 22, 2022 · David Spergel is a theoretical astrophysicist who works on cosmology, exoplanets, and space science. He is the founding director of the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute and co-chair of the WFIRST science team.
I joined the Flatiron Institute in 2016 as founding director of the Center for Computational Astrophysics. In 2021 I became president of the Simons Foundation. My research interests range from the search for planets around nearby stars to the shape of the universe.
Observational evidence for self-interacting cold dark matter. DN Spergel, PJ Steinhardt. Physical review letters 84 (17), 3760. , 2000. 2529. 2000. Nine-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: final maps and results. CL Bennett, D Larson, JL Weiland, N Jarosik, G Hinshaw, N Odegard, ...
David Spergel is president of the Simons Foundation. He is the Charles Young Professor of Astronomy Emeritus at Princeton University and was the founding director of the Center of Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York.
Spergel is the author of over 300 refereed papers with over 98,000 citations (Hirsch h=118). He is the first author of the 1st and 3rd most cited papers in physics in the new millennium. Mentorship: Spergel has mentored over 30 PhD students and 35 postdocs. His mentees have been highly successful.
