Bernard J. Carr is a British professor of mathematics and astronomy at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

His research interests include the early universe, dark matter, general relativity, primordial black holes, and the anthropic principle.

He is the author of more than two hundred scientific papers and his monograph, Cosmological Gravitational Waves, won the 1985 Adams Essay Prize.

He has been the co-holder of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a project entitled Fundamental Physics and the Problem of our Existence.

He is the editor of a book based on a series of conferences funded by the Foundation, entitled Universe or Multiverse?