Gilbert Holder

Appointment

Fellow

Gravity & the Extreme Universe

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About

Gilbert Holder’s research focuses on cosmology. He is particularly interested in the formation of structure in the universe, such as superclusters, clusters of galaxies, galaxies, stars and planets.

He searches for the observable imprints of the processes that formed these structures, through scattering effects (such as the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect) and gravitational distortions (of distant background objects or of the microwave background fluctuations). Areas of study include galaxy clusters, large angle CMB anisotropy and gravitational lensing.

Awards

Carl Sagan Outstanding Teacher Award, 2001

Relevant Publications

Hairman, Z., Holder, G. (2009). The reionization history at high redshifts. I. Physical models and new constraints from cosmic microwave background polarization. Astrophysical Journal, 595, 1-12. DOI: 10.1086/377337/

Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Department

Department of Physics

Education

PhD (Astronomy and Astrophysics), University of Chicago
MSc (Physics), Queen's University
BSc (Astrophysics), Queen's University

Country

United States

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