Andrew Pontzen

Andrew Pontzen is a British cosmologist and professor at University College London, where he studies the origins of the universe using supercomputer simulations. His book The Universe in a Box presents cosmology to the general reader by recounting how these simulations — universes "in boxes" — help explain everything from dark matter to galaxy formation.

Pontzen is a leading popular-astronomy communicator whose research won him the Royal Astronomical Society's Fowler Prize. His writing combines technical joy with careful popular exposition, making cutting-edge cosmology feel approachable, and his book was a Times Best Book of the Year.