Honorary Fellow Carlos Frenk awarded a Knighthood in King's Birthday Honours

We're delighted to congratulate Professor Sir Carlos Frenk (KC 1977), a world-leading cosmologist at Durham University, on receiving the honour of Knight Bachelor in the King's Birthday Honours.

He is a world-renowned cosmologist, whose contributions to the technique of cosmological supercomputer simulations were pivotal to the development of the Cold Dark Matter theory of the formation of cosmic structure. He continues to be very active in research, publishing 125 journal articles in the past 5 years alone. He co-created the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics at Durham University and was the founding Director of the Centre’s Institute for Computational Cosmology. The Ogden Centre is one of the prime institutions in the world for research into the evolution of our Universe and the nature of elementary particles. Carlos initiated a programme of public outreach at Durham, including a yearly summer camp focused on STEM teaching for Ukrainian children who have lost at least one of their parents in the war.

Carlos Frenk was a graduate student at King's in the late 1970s while studying for a PhD at the University's Institute of Astronomy.