Oliver Philcox

I am an Assistant Professor in Physics at Stanford University, affiliated with both the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Cosmology and the Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Previously, I was a Junior Fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows, hosted at Columbia University with Colin Hill. Originally from England, I completed my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy with Blake Sherwin, before spending a year in Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics with Daniel Eisenstein. I was then a doctoral student at Princeton University’s Department of Astrophysical Sciences and a visiting graduate student at the Institute for Advanced Study. I was advised by David Spergel and Matias Zaldarriaga.

I’m broadly interested in theoretical, statistical, and observational cosmology, particularly as applied to galaxy surveys and the Cosmic Microwave Background. With Mikhail Ivanov and Marko Simonovic, I won the 2024 New Horizons Prize in Physics.

I have written a brief guide to the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure, and have a number of public codes on my GitHub.