Katherine Mack is an astrophysics professor at NC State who focuses on studying dark matter.[1] She maintains a strong science outreach presence on both social and traditional media. Mack's Twitter account is one of the most-followed accounts of professional astronomers worldwide;[2][3] her "smackdown" of a mansplaining climate change denier on Twitter achieved mainstream coverage,[4] as did her "Chirp for LIGO" upon the first detection of gravitational waves.[5][6] She was the 2017 lecturer for Women in Physics[7] under the aegis of the Australian Institute of Physics, in which capacity she gave talks at schools and universities across Australia. As of January 2018 she is employed at the Physics Department of North Carolina State University as an Assistant Professor and as a member of university's Leadership in Public Science Cluster.[8]
In a January 2018 auction featuring at least eight bidders Daniel Loedel of Scribner bought the North American rights to Mack's The End of Everything, which explores the five ways in which the cosmos can end; Mack was represented by the Creative Artists Agency, and her book is slated to be published in the summer of 2020.[9]
In 2018, Mack was chosen to be one of the judges for Nature magazine's newly founded Nature Research Awards for Inspiring Science and Innovating Science[10].
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