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  1. Christopher Michael Hirata won the gold medal in 1996 at the International Physics Olympiad at age 13.
  2. He received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Caltech in 2001 at the age of 18.
  3. He received his PhD in Astrophysics from Princeton University in 2005.
  4. He has been a professor at Caltech and OSU, and currently works at the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP).
  5. His research emphasis is on Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Dark energy, and galaxy clusters & large-scale structure of the universe.
  6. Hirata is considered a leading exponent of precision cosmology.
  7. With Dmitriy Tseliakhovich, he suggested an effect in cosmological perturbation theory for the calculation of the formation of the first structures in the universe.
  8. He initiated a program for analyzing information from astronomical data to study particle physics.
  9. He is a member of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
  10. He works in both theory and the analysis of observational data, as well as in the design of telescopes.