Clement Laurence Pryke (born 1968 in Wallasey, Cheshire, UK) is an English-American physicist, focusing in astrophysics and cosmology, particularly on the cosmic microwave background.
and in 1996 with a Ph.D.[4] His Ph.D. thesis Instrumentation development and experimental design for a next generation detector of the highest energy cosmic rays[5] was supervised by Alan Andrew Watson.
[3] From 2002 to 2010 he was an assistant professor in the department of astronomy and astrophysics of the University of Chicago.
[4][7] Pryke was elected in 2016 a Fellow of the American Physical Society, "for groundbreaking measurement and data analyses of the polarization of cosmic microwave background radiation, and for using the data to provide strong constraints on the composition and initial conditions of the early universe".
[8] He was involved with the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer (DASI),[9] and QUaD microwave background polarization experiments, and is currently co-PI of the BICEP and Keck Array collaboration.