Asantha Cooray
Asantha Cooray is an Associate Professor and a Chancellor's Fellow[1] at University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. His research expertise is in the field of cosmology and theoretical astrophysics and has contributed to topics in field such as halo model of the galaxy distribution in the large-scale structure[2], and has developed ways to measure and quantify physical properties of dark energy and dark matter in the universe. Cooray is also a Science Editor of Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP), a leading journal for cosmologists published by the Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP) on behalf of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA).
Education
Cooray attended Royal College, Colombo, Sri Lanka for primary and secondary education, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA for undergraduate studies in physics and mathematics, and completed a PhD in Astrophysics in 2001 at University of Chicago, Chicago, IL under Wayne Hu.
Career
He was the Sherman Fairchild Senior Research Fellow in theoretical astrophysics at California Institute of Technology between the years 2001 and 2005, funded by the Sherman Fairchild foundation. He was a recipient of an early career-development Award (CAREER)[3] from US National Science Foundation in 2007.