I am a cosmologist and astrophysicist, in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London, where I am also the Director of the Imperial Centre for Inference and Cosmology. I am especially interested in the interpretation and analysis of cosmological data using principled Bayesian statistical techniques.

My book, The Random Universe: How Models and Probability Help Us Make Sense of the Cosmos, explores how physicists use probability to draw conclusions about the universe — and what that reveals about how science works. It is available now from Yale University Press.

Probably the best book I’ve ever read on what the scientific method really is.
—Brian Clegg

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You can see a short talk about the book here, or find recent and upcoming appearances.

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