Chris Hirata
Christopher Michael Hirata (born November 30, 1982) is an American cosmologist and astrophysicist. Hirata was 13 years old when he won the gold medal in 1996 at the International Physics Olympiad. He received a bachelor’s degree in physics at Caltech in 2001, at the age of 18 . He received his PhD under the supervision of Uroš Seljak in 2005 from Princeton University in Astrophysics.