George Petros Efstathiou is a British astrophysicist who is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge and was the first Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge from 2008 to 2016.
13 Facts About George Efstathiou
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George Efstathiou was previously Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford.
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George Efstathiou then studied at Keble College, Oxford and the University of Durham where he was awarded a PhD in 1979.
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George Efstathiou was a research assistant in the Astronomy Department of University of California, Berkeley from 1979 to 1980, then moved to the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, holding research fellowships at King's College, Cambridge from 1980 to 1988.
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George Efstathiou was appointed Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford in 1988.
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George Efstathiou was Head of Astrophysics between 1988 and 1994.
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George Efstathiou returned to Cambridge in 1997 as Professor of Astrophysics and a fellow of King's College.
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George Efstathiou was Director of the Institute of Astronomy between 2004 and 2008.
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George Efstathiou became the first Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology in 2008.
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George Efstathiou has made a number of notable contributions to research in cosmology, including:.
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George Efstathiou was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 1990.
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George Efstathiou received the Gruber Prize in Cosmology for 2011 jointly with Marc Davis, Carlos Frenk and Simon White, the Nemitsas Prize in Physics for 2013 and the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society in 2015.
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In 2022 George Efstathiou was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, its highest honour whose previous recipients include Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble and Fred Hoyle.