Professor of mathematics and astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His research interests include the early universe, dark matter, general relativity theory, primordial black holes and the anthropic principle. He studied relativity theory and cosmology with Stephen Hawking at the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy. He is the author of over two hundred scientific papers and his monograph on cosmological gravitational waves won the prestigious Adams Prize. Bernard Carr is one of the faces of modern cosmology.