Background
Seljak, Uros was born on May 13, 1966 in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. Son of Peter and Vida (Zelinscek) Seljak. came to the United States, 1991.
Seljak, Uros was born on May 13, 1966 in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. Son of Peter and Vida (Zelinscek) Seljak. came to the United States, 1991.
Bachelor of Science in Physics, U. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1989; Master of Science in Physics, U. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1991; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995.
He is particularly known for his research on cosmic microwave background radiation, galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing, and the implications of these observations for the large scale structure of the universe. After finishing the Nova Gorica Grammar School, Seljak did his undergraduate studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, graduating in 1989, and received a master"s degree from the same institution in 1991. He then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy in 1995.
After postdoctoral studies at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, he took faculty positions at Princeton University, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, and the University of Zurich, before joining the Berkeley faculty in 2008.
At Berkeley, he also holds a joint appointment with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Together with Matias Zaldarriaga, he developed the CMBFAST code, the first computationally efficient method for computing the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation for an arbitrary set of cosmological parameters.
Member American Physics Society.