Brittany Kamai
Brittany Kamai | |
|---|---|
 Kamai at Fermilab in 2012 | |
| Born | United States |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics (astrophysics) |
| Institutions | Caltech |
| Thesis | “Hunting for MHz Gravitational Waves with the Fermilab Holometer” |
| Doctoral advisor | Andreas A. Berlind (Vanderbilt) & Stephan S. Meyer (University of Chicago) |
Brittany Kamai is an astrophysicist from Hawai'i.
In June 2020, she was one of the organizers of the #shutdownSTEM movement[1] formed as a response to the murder of George Floyd and the fight for racial justice led by the Black Lives Matter movement. #shutdownSTEM was designed to bring the international STEM community together to eradicate anti-Black racism.[2][3]
Education[]
Brittany Kamai received her bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and her Master of Arts from Fisk University in 2011. She was awarded her PhD in 2016 from Vanderbilt University, under joint supervision of Andreas A. Berlind at Fisk and Stephan S. Meyer at the University of Chicago. Her PhD research focused on using the Fermilab Holometer to search for gravitational waves in the MHz frequency range.
Honours and awards[]
- Heising-Simons Fellowship[4] jointly appointed at Caltech and University of California, Santa Cruz.
- National Academy of Sciences’ Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow (2018)[5]
- National Academy of Sciences’ Ford Dissertation Fellowship[6]
References[]
- ^ "Global Science TV: Racism in Science with Brittany Kamai". 23 June 2020.
- ^ "#ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownSTEM". shutdownstem.com.. The event was supported by a large number of scientists internationally.
- ^ "Across the Globe, Scientists Are Striking for Black Lives" – via www.wired.com.
- ^ "Science". hsfoundation.org.
- ^ "2018 Kavli Fellows - News Release". www.nasonline.org.
- ^ "2015 Conference of Ford Fellows" (PDF). nationalacademies.org.
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