Rachel Bean
Rachel Bean | |
|---|---|
| Awards | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers Cottrell Scholar Award NASA Group Achievement Award |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Cambridge University |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Astronomy |
| Sub-discipline | Dark energy |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
Rachel Bean is a cosmologist and theoretical astrophysicist.[1] She is a professor of astronomy[2] at Cornell University.
Education[]
Bean received her bachelor’s degree (Natural Sciences) from Cambridge University (1995). After graduation, she worked in the Strategy Division at Accenture before returning to academia. She received her master’s (1999) and doctorate (2002) in theoretical physics from Imperial College London. She did postdoctoral research at Princeton University, before becoming a faculty member at Cornell University in 2005.[3]
Research[]
Bean’s research focuses on cosmological tests of the nature of dark energy and gravity, and the physical origins of primordial inflation, using data from large-scale structure and the cosmic microwave background. She is actively involved in a number of international astronomical surveys including the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), and the Euclid mission.[1]
Awards[]
- 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics[4] (for the results of the WMAP mission)
- 2016 Fellow, American Physical Society[5]
- 2012 Gruber Prize in Cosmology, for the results of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) mission[6]
- 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)[7]
- 2008 Cottrell Scholar Award, Research Corporation. [3]
- 2007 NASA Group Achievement Award (for the results of the WMAP mission)[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c "Bio | Rachel Bean". blogs.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
- ^ "Department of Astronomy Cornell University". The Department of Astronomy. 28 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Rachel Esther Bean Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). National Science Foundation. 28 April 2020.
- ^ Friedlander, Blaine (6 December 2017). "Astronomer shares $3M physics Breakthrough Prize". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ "Fellows". aps.org. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- ^ "Gruber Cosmology Prize Citation". Gruber Foundation. 28 April 2020.
- ^ "Obama White House Archives". The White House President Barack Obama. 11 May 2010.
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