Uroš Seljak

Uroš Seljak joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008 with a joint appointment in the physics and astronomy departments. He also holds a senior faculty scientist position at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received his B.S. in 1989 and his M.S. in 1991 from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, and he earned his Ph.D. from MIT in 1995. He was a Smithsonian Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 1995 to 1998. Subsequently, he served on the faculty at Princeton University, ICTP Trieste, and the University of Zurich before moving to Berkeley. Professor Seljak is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering (2000), the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2001), the Helen B. Warner Award of the American Astronomical Society (2001), and the NSF CAREER Award (2002). He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2016 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019. He is a co-director of the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics and a member of the Berkeley Institutes for Data Science and the Foundations of Data Analysis. His research focuses on applying theory and data analysis methods to the fields of astronomy, cosmology, physics, and beyond.

Research projects: His research focuses on theoretical-observational and numerical astrophysics as well as cosmology. He works with data science, which he applies to large astronomical datasets and in other applications. His areas of work include uncertainty quantification using Bayesian posterior analysis and the estimation of normalization constants, physical generative models in cosmology, optimal parameter extraction in high-dimensional models, planet detection using transit timing variations, time-stream data analysis with generative models, counterfactual analysis of econometric data, and LIGO gravitational wave analysis.