Jo Dunkley

Jo Dunkley
Jo Dunkley delivering a plenary lecture
Born Joanna Dunkley
1979
Alma mater University of Cambridge (MSci)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
Spouse(s) Faramerz Dabhoiwala[1]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Cosmology
Cosmic Microwave Background
Neutrinos
Institutions Princeton University
University of Oxford
Thesis Modern methods for cosmological parameter estimation : beyond the adiabatic paradigm (2005)
Doctoral advisor Pedro G. Ferreira
Website physics.princeton.edu/~jdunkley

Joanna Dunkley is an award-winning British astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at Princeton University. She works on the origin of the Universe using the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the Simons Observatory and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).[2][3]

Education

Dunkley graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2001 with First Class Honours with a Master of Science (MSci) degree in Natural Sciences (Theoretical Physics) where she was an undergraduate student of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[4] She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in 2005 for research supervised by Pedro G. Ferreira as a postgraduate student of Magdalen College, Oxford.[5]

Research and career

Her research is in cosmology, studying the Chronology of the universe using the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the Simons Observatory, and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).[6][2][3]

After her DPhil, she joined Princeton University as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2006, working with David Spergel and Lyman Page on NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP).[7] Dunkley did postdoctoral research on the WMAP project. In an interview at Princeton in 2017, Spergel said she quickly "made major contributions to the analysis that led to the development of what we now think of as the standard model of cosmology."[7] Soon after she began working with the European Space Agency (ESA) Planck satellite, which produced a higher-resolution view of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) compared to WMAP.[8]

Atacama Cosmology Telescope from distance

Dunkley moved to Oxford in 2007 and became a Professor of Astrophysics in 2014.[4] Dunkley led analysis for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile, using gravitational lensing to identify dark matter.[7] At Oxford her work included constraints on the number of possible neutrino species in the world.[9] The images of the CMB, released in 2013, showed the universe at only 400,000 years old.[10] Her research combines theoretical physics with statistical analysis and uses her models to understand the universe from cosmological observations.[11] Alongside estimating how much the universe weighs, Dunkley can identify the proportions of Dark Energy and Dark Matter.[12] She used gravitational lensing within the CMB as evidence for Dark Energy within the universe, selected by Physics Today as a highlight of 2011.[13]

Dunkley rejoined Princeton in 2016.[14] Her new research, using the Simons Observatory, looks for “new physics, complexities and extra particles that could have existed when the universe was very young,”.[15] In 2017, she was awarded the Breakthrough Prize for Physics with 22 members of the NASA WMAP Science Team.[16]

Public engagement

Jo Dunkley has given numerous public lectures and seminars.[17] She has made appearances on BBC Stargazing Live and Dara O'Brian's Science Club.[18][19][20] She is mentioned in Pippa Goldschmidt's I Am Because You Are: An anthology of stories celebrating the centenary of the General Theory of Relativity.[21] Her first book, Our Universe: An Astronomer's Guide will be published by Penguin in late 2018.[22][23][24] For the books release, she will tour the country giving a series of workshops and talks for students to raise awareness of women's contributions to astronomy.[15]

Awards and honours

Dunkley has won several awards including:

References

  1. ↑ Schussler, Jennifer (2012-02-29). "This Revolution Was British, Fired by Libidos". nytimes.com. New York, New York: The New York Times.
  2. 1 2 Jo Dunkley publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. 1 2 Jo Dunkley publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. 1 2 "Jo Dunkley CV" (PDF). Princeton University. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  5. ↑ Dunkley, Joanna (2005). Modern methods for cosmological parameter estimation : beyond the adiabatic paradigm. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 500732473. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.441310.
  6. ↑ "Jo Dunkley - About". physics.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  7. 1 2 3 "Understanding the universe: Astrophysicist Dunkley shines through her research". Princeton University. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  8. ↑ "New view of Universe from Planck | University of Oxford Department of Physics". www2.physics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  9. 1 2 Physics, Institute of. "2013 Maxwell medal and prize". www.iop.org. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  10. ↑ Morgan, Gregg (2013-03-21). "New 'Big Bang' image explained: 'This is what the universe looked like'". Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  11. ↑ "Jo Dunkley | Voices From Oxford". www.voicesfromoxford.org. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  12. ↑ "Measuring the Universe". Voices From Oxford. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  13. ↑ "Dark energy spotted in the cosmic microwave background - physicsworld.com". physicsworld.com. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  14. ↑ University, Princeton. "Understanding the universe: Astrophysicist Dunkley shines through her research". research.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  15. 1 2 "The astrophysicist on a mission to get more women into physics : Soapbox Science". blogs.nature.com. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  16. ↑ "Princeton scientists share Breakthrough Prize for mapping the early universe". Princeton University. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  17. ↑ "Talks - Jo Dunkley". physics.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  18. ↑ "Our model of the Universe". www.nam2014.org. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  19. ↑ "Before the Beginning, After the End". iai.tv. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  20. ↑ Long, Max. "BBC brings Stargazing to Oxford". Cherwell. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  21. ↑ I am because you are : a collection of new writing. Goldshmidt, Pippa,, Hershman, Tania,. Glasgow [Scotland]. ISBN 191044927X. OCLC 931161608.
  22. ↑ Dunkley, Jo (2018-03-12). Our Universe: An Astronomer's Guide. S.l.: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674984288.
  23. ↑ "Our Universe: An Astronomer's Guide | Books | Janklow & Nesbit". www.janklowandnesbit.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  24. ↑ "Our Universe — Jo Dunkley | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  25. ↑ "University scientists share $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics". The Princetonian. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  26. ↑ Our window on the Universe - Rosalind Franklin Lecture 2016 by Professor Jo Dunkley on YouTube
  27. ↑ "Our window on the Universe". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  28. ↑ The Royal Society (2016-11-24), Our window on the Universe - Rosalind Franklin Lecture 2016 by Professor Jo Dunkley., retrieved 2018-01-19
  29. ↑ "Joanna Dunkley". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  30. ↑ "Awards Made 2015" (PDF). Leverhulme. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  31. ↑ Smith, Keith. "Winners of the 2014 awards, medals and prizes - full details". www.ras.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  32. ↑ "NASA - NASA's WMAP Science Team Awarded 2012 Gruber Cosmology Prize". www.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  33. ↑ "European Commission : CORDIS : Projects and Results : Fundamental Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background". cordis.europa.eu. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  34. ↑ "NASA - 2007 NASA Honor Awards Ceremony". nasa.gov. S. Jenise Veris. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
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