Hi! I’m Ben, and I’m a second-year PhD student in astrophysics and Principal’s Career Development Scholar at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Physics and Astronomy. With a previous detour through a master’s degree in artificial intelligence and a specialization in machine learning, I’m also an accredited Graduate Statistician with the American Statistical Association. Due to the influence of statistics and machine learning on my research, I’m essentially a ‘machine cosmologist’. 🙂

Research groups:

• IfA: Institute for Astronomy
• DES: The Dark Energy Survey
• COIN: Cosmostatistics Initiative

Learned societies:

• RAS: Royal Astronomical Society (Fellow)
• ASA: American Statistical Association (GStat)
• IMS: Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Member)
• IAA: International Astrostatistics Association (Member)