Daniel Eisenstein

Daniel Eisenstein is an American cosmologist born in 1970, who earned his PhD from Harvard University in 1996 under Abraham Loeb, held postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Chicago, joined the University of Arizona as a professor in 2001, and moved to Harvard University as a professor of astronomy in 2010; the asteroid 183287 Deisenstein is named in his honor. He is recognized for landmark work on baryon acoustic oscillations as a tool for measuring the large scale structure of the universe and directed the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III from 2007 to 2015. He shared the 2014 Shaw Prize in Astronomy with Shaun Cole and John A. Peacock.