Bernard Carr

Bernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. As an undergraduate, he read mathematics at Cambridge University, and for his PhD he studied the first second of the Universe, working under Stephen Hawking at Cambridge and Caltech. He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1975, and in 1980 spent a year traveling around America as a Lindemann Fellow before taking up a Senior Research Fellowship at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. In 1984, he was awarded the Adams Prize, one of the UK’s most prestigious mathematical awards. He moved to Queen Mary in 1985 and became a Professor there in 1995. He has also held Visiting Professorships at various institutes in America, Canada, and Japan.