Philip Mocz

Philip Mocz
Mocz in 2023
Born	(1989-12-03) December 3, 1989 (age 36)
Education	Harvard University (AB, PhD)
Awards	Buchalter Cosmology Prize (2020) Keto Award (2017) Intel Science Talent Search (2008)
Scientific career
Fields	Astrophysics Computational Physics
Workplaces	Flatiron Institute Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Princeton University
Thesis	Moving Mesh Magnetohydrodynamics: Magnetic Processes in Star Formation and Cosmology (2017)
Doctoral advisor	Lars Hernquist

Philip Mocz (born December 3, 1989) is an American astrophysicist and software engineer at the Flatiron Institute.

Life

He graduated from Harvard University with an AB in Mathematics and Astrophysics in 2012, and a PhD in astrophysics, in 2017.

Awards

• Buchalter Cosmology Prize (2020) in recognition of his work on cosmological simulations of scalar-field dark matter
• Keto Award (2017) for his PhD thesis "Moving Mesh Magnetohydrodynamics: Magnetic Processes in Star Formation and Cosmology"
• Intel Science Talent Search (2008) winner

Works

• "First Star-Forming Structures in Fuzzy Cosmic Filaments", Physical Review Letters, Authors: P. Mocz, A. Fialkov, M. Vogelsberger, F. Becerra, M.A. Amin, S. Bose, M. Boylan-Kolchin, P.-H. Chavanis, L. Hernquist, L. Lancaster, F. Marinacci, V.H. Robles, J. Zavala.

References

External links

• "Philip Mocz", Simons Foundation
• "Waves from the Early Universe", Nature
• Journal articles by Philip Mocz in the ADS database