Mike Boylan-Kolchin

Mike Boylan-Kolchin is a professor of astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin and holds the Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professorship in Astronomy. He earned a B.A. in astrophysics from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining UT Austin in 2015, Boylan-Kolchin held appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, the University of California, Irvine and the University of Maryland. He has received numerous honors, including an NSF CAREER Award and recognition as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher.

Cosmology and galaxy formation, including:

• the formation, evolution, and structure of galaxies and dark matter halos
• the nature of dark matter
• near-field cosmology
• high-redshift galaxy formation
• globular cluster formation and evolution
• cosmological parameters and tensions
• numerical simulations