Jo Dunkley

Joanna "Jo" Dunkley (* 1979 ) is a British astrophysicist and cosmologist.

Jo Dunkley attended the North London Collegiate School and studied from 1997 at Cambridge University (Trinity Hall) with a master's degree in theoretical physics in 2001. She then went to Oxford University , where she received her doctorate in 2005 with Pedro G. Ferreira ( Modern methods for cosmological parameter estimation: Beyond the adiabatic paradigm). As a post-doctoral student , she was at Princeton University , where she researched cosmic background radiation (CMB) with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) under David Spergel and Lyman Page . Then she switched to the ESA's Planck Space Telescope . In 2007 she returned to Oxford, where she was a Fellow of Exeter College, becoming an Associate Professor in 2012 and a professorship in 2014. Among other things, she used the gravitational lensing effect to identify dark matter and dark energy . From 2016 she was back at Princeton as a professor.

From 2007 to 2012 she was a member of the WMAP team and from 2009 to 2015 in the core team of the Planck Space Telescope. Both missions served to establish the fundamental cosmological parameters.

She conducts research with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (member of the Board of Directors from 2016), the Simons Observatory and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSS).

In 2016 she received the Rosalind Franklin Award , 2015 the Wolfson Research Merit Award of the Royal Society, 2014 the Fowler Prize of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2015 the Philip Leverhulme Prize and 2013 the Maxwell Medal . In 2010 she received an ERC Starting Grant. For 2020 she received the New Horizons in Physics Prize . Before that, she was a 2018 winner of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with the WMAP team led by David Spergel . The WMAP team also received the Gruber Prize for Cosmology (2012) and the NASA Group Achievement Award in 2007. She is OBE (2019).

She is in a relationship with the historian Faramerz Dabhoiwala , with whom she has two children.

Fonts (selection)

Our Universe: An Astronomer's Guide, Harvard UP 2019

Web links

Commons : Jo Dunkley - collection of images, videos and audio files

Homepage in Princeton

Individual evidence

↑ Madhavacheril, Dunkley et al. a .: Evidence of Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Dark Matter Halos, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 114, 2015, p. 151302, Arxiv

personal data
SURNAME	Dunkley, Jo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dunkley, Joanna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British astrophysicist and cosmologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1979

[1] Madhavacheril, Dunkley et al. a .: Evidence of Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Dark Matter Halos, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 114, 2015, p. 151302, Arxiv