Katie Mack

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Katie Mack (2019)

Katherine J. Mack (born May 1, 1981 ) is a theoretical cosmologist and assistant professor at North Carolina State University . Her research examines dark matter , vacuum decay and the reionization era . Mack is active in science communication , social media, and contributing to Scientific American , Slate , Sky & Telescope , Time, and Cosmos .

childhood and education

Mack was already interested in science as a child and built solar-powered cars from Lego components . Her mom is a fan of science fiction and encouraged Mack to watch Star Trek and Star Wars . Her grandfather was a student at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and worked on the Apollo 11 mission. After attending lectures by scientists like Stephen Hawking , she wanted to know how the universe works and was particularly interested in spacetime and the Big Bang. She received her bachelor's degree in physics from Caltech in 2003. Mack received his PhD in astrophysics from Princeton University in 2009 . Her doctoral thesis on the early universe was supervised by Paul Steinhardt .

Research and career

After completing her doctorate, Mack joined the University of Cambridge as a Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) postdoc at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology . Later in 2012 she was a Fellow of the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) at the University of Melbourne . Mack was involved in building the SABER dark matter detector.

In January 2018, Mack became an Assistant Professor and a member of the Leadership in Public Science Cluster in the Physics Department at North Carolina State University .

Mack works at the interface between basic physics and astrophysics . Her research deals with dark matter , vacuum decay , the formation of galaxies, observable traces of cosmic evolution (COSMOS, Hubble Space Telescope Project) and the reionization era . Mack described dark matter as one of the "most pressing mysteries" in science. She has worked on the self-annihilation of dark matter and examined whether the accumulation of dark matter can lead to the growth of primordial black holes (PBHs). She also worked on the effects of these black holes on background radiation . She also became increasingly interested in the end of the universe.

Public engagement and science communication

Mack has a strong presence as a science communicator in both social and traditional media. Your Twitter account is one of the most visited accounts by professional scientists worldwide. Motherboard and Creative Cultivate described her as a "social media celebrity".

Mack is a popular science writer and has published articles in The Guardian , Scientific American , Slate , The Conversation , Sky & Telescope , Gizmodo , Time and Cosmos , as well as the BBC . Mack's Twitter account AstroKatie had over 350,000 followers as of May 2020. Her reaction to a climate change denier on Twitter reached mainstream coverage, as did her “Chirp for LIGO” when gravitational waves were first detected .

In 2017 she was the lecturer for Women in Physics at the Australian Institute of Physics, holding lectures at schools and universities across Australia for three weeks.

In February 2019, Mack appeared on an episode of The Jodcast, an astronomy podcast, and talked about her work and science communication . Mack was a member of the jury for the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival . In 2019, Hozier referred to the 'No Plan' track on his album Wasteland, Baby! on Katie Mack: “As Mack explained, there will be darkness again” (German: “As Mack explained, there will be darkness again”).

She is a member of the Sloan Science & Film Community, where she works on science fiction .

Her first book, The End of Everything , was published by Simon & Schuster in August 2020 . It describes and explores five different ways the universe could end. Simon & Schuster won the rights to Mack's first book against eight other bidders.

Web links

Commons : Katie Mack  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katie Mack in ORCID. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  2. ^ Google Scholar. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  3. ^ Katie Mack: A Tour of the Universe (and selected cosmic mysteries). In: slideshare.net. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  4. ^ A b c Create & Cultivate 100: STEM & Finance: Katie Mack. In: Create + Cultivate. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  5. ^ Ana Marie Cox: Space the Nation: Katie Mack, the mansplainer slayer, on getting science right. In: SYFY WIRE. October 23, 2018, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Dana Terry and Frank Stasio: A Scientist Who Found Her Faith In Physics: Meet Katie Mack, AKA AstroKatie. In: www.wunc.org. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  7. ↑ On Astrophysics, Stardust, and Our (Teeny Tiny) Place in the Universe. In: Techer. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  8. ^ A b Katherine (Katie) Mack - Department of Physics - NC State University. May 24, 2018, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Katie Mack * 09: Taming of the Troll. In: Princeton Alumni Weekly. September 26, 2016, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Katherine J. Mack: PhD Thesis: Tests of early universe physics from observational astronomy . Ed .: Princeton University. 2009, OCLC 437814758 ( proquest.com ).
  11. ↑ Katherine Mack. In: www.planetary.org. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  12. ^ Katie Macks University website. In: University of Melbourne. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  13. ^ A b Sarah Scoles: I Went to the 'Contact' Radio Telescope with the Astrophysicist Behind Twitter's All-Time Sickest Burn. In: Motherboard. April 10, 2017, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  14. ^ Katherine Mack: Assistant Professor. In: NCSU Physics. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  15. ^ Katie Mack: I'm Looking for Evidence That Dark Matter Messed With Stars and Galaxies. In: Slate Magazine. February 25, 2014, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  16. ^ Vacuum decay: the ultimate catastrophe. In: Cosmos Magazine. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  17. ^ Katie Mack (Astrokatie): The Universe, in Theory: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Cosmos. In: The Universe, in Theory. August 31, 2012, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  18. ^ U of T Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics: Dark Matter, First Light. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Michael Slezak: Bright light may not be dark matter's smoking gun after all. In: New Scientist. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Katherine J. Mack: Known unknowns of dark matter annihilation over cosmic time . In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . tape 439 , no. 3 , February 20, 2014, ISSN  1365-2966 , p. 2728-2735 , doi : 10.1093 / mnras / stu129 , arxiv : 1309.7783 .
  21. ^ Katherine J. Mack, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Massimo Ricotti: Growth of Structure Seeded by Primordial Black Holes . In: The Astrophysical Journal . tape 665 , no. 2 , August 20, 2007, ISSN  0004-637X , p. 1277–1287 , doi : 10.1086 / 518998 , arxiv : astro-ph / 0608642 .
  22. ^ Massimo Ricotti, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Katherine J. Mack: Effect of Primordial Black Holes on the Cosmic Microwave Background and Cosmological Parameter Estimates . In: The Astrophysical Journal . tape 680 , no. 2 , 2008, ISSN  0004-637X , p. 829-845 , doi : 10.1086 / 587831 , arxiv : 0709.0524 .
  23. ^ Death of a Universe: College of Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. In: cos.gatech.edu. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Katie Mack, @AstroKatie on Twitter
  25. ^ Electric Lady Influencer of the Week: Katie Mack ( Memento August 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Electric Lady . April 28, 2017.
  26. ^ Katie Mack: Black Holes, Cosmic Collisions and the Rippling of Spacetime. In: The Atlantic. June 12, 2017, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Death of a Universe - La mort d'un Univers. In: Indico. February 25, 2019, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  28. ^ Author Katie Mack. In: Scientific American. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  29. ^ Katie Mack - The Guardian. In: the Guardian. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  30. ↑ Katie Mack. In: Cosmos Magazine. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  31. ↑ Katherine J. Mack: From black holes to dark matter, an astrophysicist explains. In: The Conversation. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  32. ^ Mary Halton: Ghost galaxy prompts cosmic mystery. March 28, 2018, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  33. ↑ Astrophysicist Katie Mack lays the smackdown on mansplainer with droll Twitter burn. In: NYT. August 16, 2016, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  34. ↑ Gianluca Fiore Mezzo: Astrophysicist had the perfect response to climate change denier. In: Mashable. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  35. ↑ Davide Castelvecchi, Alexandra Witze: Einstein's gravitational waves found at last . In: Nature News . February 11, 2016, doi : 10.1038 / nature.2016.19361 ( nature.com [accessed May 30, 2020]).
  36. ↑ Michael Roston: Scientists Chirp Excitedly for LIGO, Gravitational Waves and Einstein. In: The New York Times . February 11, 2016, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  37. ^ Katie Mack is the 2017 Women in Physics Lecturer. April 4, 2017, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  38. ↑ Knox Grammar School (YouTube): 'A Tour of the Universe' - Dr Katie Mack, 'Women in Physics' lecture. August 9, 2017, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  39. ↑ February 2019: Try turning it off and on again! In: The Jodcast. February 11, 2019, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  40. ↑ Sundance Film Festival: Juries, Awards Night Host Announced - Thursday, January 17th, 2019. In: Sundance Film Festival. January 17, 2019, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  41. ^ Louise Bruton: Hozier: 'If I wanted to make af ** king pop song, I would'. In: The Irish Times. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  42. ^ People - Sloan Science & Film. In: scienceandfilm.org. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  43. ^ Sloan Science & Film. In: scienceandfilm.org. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  44. ↑ a b c Book Deals: Week of January 29, 2018. In: publishersweekly.com. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  45. ↑ AstroKatie: Book. In: Katie Mack, astrophysicist. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Mack, Katie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mack, Katherine J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical cosmologist, astrophysicist and science communicator
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1981