About Carlos Frenk
Sir Carlos Silvestre Frenk (born 27 October 1951) is a Mexican-British cosmologist. He has been Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University since 2001 and was director of the university’s Institute for Computational Cosmology from 2001 to 2020. Frenk is known for his work on galaxy formation, dark matter, and cosmological simulations. == Early life and education == Frenk was born in Mexico City, Mexico. His father was a German-Jewish physician who emigrated before the Second World War, and his mother was a Mexican pianist. His younger brother, Julio Frenk, is a physician and academic administrator. Frenk studied engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) before switching to theoretical physics, graduating in 1976 with the Gabino Barreda Medal. He moved to the University of Cambridge in 1976 on a British Council Fellowship, completing Part III of the Mathematical Tripos in 1977 and a PhD in 1981 under Bernard J. T. Jones, focusing on globular clusters. == Career == After his doctorate, Frenk worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, where he collaborated with Marc Davis on galaxy surveys. In 1983, Frenk, Davis, and Simon White published work showing that neutrinos could not account for dark matter.
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