Shaun Cole

Shaun Malcolm Cole is a British cosmologist.
Cole grew up in Chipping, Lancashire. He graduated from Jesus College, Oxford with a first-class degree in Physics in 1985, and subsequently completed Part [III of the Mathematical Tripos] at the University of Cambridge. His performance in Part III was strong enough to earn a studentship for a PhD at the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy.
Cole has been Professor of Physics at Durham University since 2005 and was the director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology. He was joint-winner of the 2014 Shaw Prize with Daniel Eisenstein and John A. Peacock.