Jo Dunkley

Short description: British astrophysicist

Jo Dunkley

OBE

Jo Dunkley delivering a plenary lecture

Born|

Joanna Dunkley

1979/1980 (age 46–47)[1]
Education| North London Collegiate School[1]
Alma mater| University of Cambridge (MSci)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
Spouse(s)| Faramerz Dabhoiwala[2]
Children| two[2]
Awards|

* New Horizons in Physics Prize (2020)
* Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2017)
* Rosalind Franklin Award (2016)
* Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2015)
* Philip Leverhulme Prize (2015)
* Maxwell Medal and Prize (2013)

Scientific career
Fields| Cosmology
Cosmic microwave background
Neutrinos[3]
Institutions| Princeton University
University of Oxford
Thesis| Modern methods for cosmological parameter estimation : beyond the adiabatic paradigm (2005)
Doctoral advisor| Pedro G. Ferreira
Website| physics.princeton.edu/~jdunkley

Joanna Dunkley OBE is a British astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at Princeton University. She works on the origin of the Universe and the Cosmic microwave background (CMB)[4] using the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the Simons Observatory and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).[3][5]

## Contents

* 1 Education
* 2 Research and career
* 2.1 Public engagement
* 2.2 Awards and honours
* 3 Personal life
* 4 References

## Education

Dunkley was educated at North London Collegiate School[1] and the University of Cambridge where she graduated in 2001 with a Master of Science (MSci) degree in Natural Sciences (Theoretical Physics). She was an undergraduate student of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[6] She moved to Oxford for postgraduate study where she awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in 2005 for research supervised by Pedro G. Ferreira where she was a postgraduate student of Magdalen College, Oxford.[7]

## Research and career

Her research is in cosmology, studying the chronology of the universe using the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the Simons Observatory, and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).[8][3][5]

After her DPhil, she joined Princeton University as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2006, working with David Spergel and Lyman Page on NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP).[9][10] In an interview at Princeton in 2017, Spergel said she quickly "made major contributions to the analysis that led to the development of what we now think of as the standard model of cosmology."[9] Soon after she began working with the European Space Agency (ESA) Planck satellite,[11] which produced a higher-resolution view of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) compared to WMAP.[12]

Atacama Cosmology Telescope from distance

Dunkley moved to Oxford in 2007 and was promoted to Professor of Astrophysics in 2014.[6] Dunkley led analysis for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile, using gravitational lensing to identify dark matter.[9] At Oxford her work included constraints on the number of possible neutrino species in the world.[13] The images of the CMB, released in 2013, showed the universe at only 400,000 years old.[14] Her research combines theoretical physics with statistical analysis and uses her models to understand the universe from cosmological observations.[15] Alongside estimating how much the universe weighs, Dunkley can identify the proportions of dark energy and dark matter.[16] She used gravitational lensing within the CMB as evidence for dark energy within the universe, selected by Physics Today as a highlight of 2011.[17]

Dunkley rejoined Princeton in 2016.[18] Her new research, using the Simons Observatory, looks for "new physics, complexities and extra particles that could have existed when the universe was very young,".[19] In 2017, she was awarded the Breakthrough Prize for Physics with 22 members of the NASA WMAP Science Team.[20]

### Public engagement

Dunkley has given numerous public lectures and seminars.[21] She has made appearances on BBC Stargazing Live and Dara Ó Briain's Science Club.[22][23][24] She is mentioned in Pippa Goldschmidt's I Am Because You Are: An anthology of stories celebrating the centenary of the General Theory of Relativity.[25] Her first book, Our Universe: An Astronomer's Guide was published in 2019.[1][26][27] She will deliver a series of workshops and talks for students to raise awareness of women's contributions to astronomy as part of a book tour.[19]

### Awards and honours

Dunkley has won several awards and honours including:

* 2020 – New Horizons in Physics Prize[28]
* 2019 – Appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to Science[29]
* 2017 – Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics[30] shared with 22 members of the NASA WMAP Science Team.
* 2016 – Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture[31][32]
* 2015 – Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award[33]
* 2015 – Awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust[34]
* 2014 – Awarded the Fowler Prize by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)[35]
* 2013 – Maxwell Medal and Prize[13]
* 2012 – Gruber Prize in Cosmology, shared with the WMAP team[36]
* 2010 – Starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC)[37]
* 2007 – NASA Group Achievement Award, shared with the WMAP team[38]

## Personal life

Dunkley has two children with her partner Faramerz Dabhoiwala.[2][1]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Law, Katie (2019). "Astrophysics professor Jo Dunkley on the complexities of the universe and her mission to get women into science". London Evening Standard. London. Archived from the original on 31 January 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190131220256/https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/jo-dunkley-professor-our-universe-an-astronomers-guide-a4052746.html.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Schussler, Jennifer (29 February 2012). "This Revolution Was British, Fired by Libidos". The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on 22 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180322224821/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/books/faramerz-dabhoiwala-of-origins-of-sex-at-museum-of-sex.html.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
4. ↑ Staggs, Suzanne; Dunkley, Jo; Page, Lyman (2018). "Recent discoveries from the cosmic microwave background: a review of recent progress". Reports on Progress in Physics 81 (4): 044901. doi:10.1088/1361-6633/aa94d5. ISSN 0034-4885. PMID 29051392.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Jo Dunkley publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (Subscription content?)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Dunkley, Jo (2015). "Jo Dunkley CV". Archived from the original on 23 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180123131207/http://physics.princeton.edu/~jdunkley/cv.pdf.
7. ↑ Dunkley, Joanna (2005). Modern methods for cosmological parameter estimation : beyond the adiabatic paradigm. copac.jisc.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 500732473. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.441310.
8. ↑ "Jo Dunkley – About". http://physics.princeton.edu/~jdunkley/.
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Understanding the universe: Astrophysicist Dunkley shines through her research". Princeton University. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/07/13/understanding-universe-astrophysicist-dunkley-shines-through-her-research.
10. ↑ Komatsu, E.; Dunkley, J.; Nolta, M. R.; Bennett, C. L.; Gold, B.; Hinshaw, G.; Jarosik, N.; Larson, D. et al. (2009). "Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 180 (2): 330–376. doi:10.1088/0067-0049/180/2/330. ISSN 0067-0049.
11. ↑ Ade, P. A. R.; Aghanim, N.; Arnaud, M.; Ashdown, M.; Aumont, J.; Baccigalupi, C.; Banday, A. J.; Barreiro, R. B. et al. (2016). "Planck2015 results". Astronomy & Astrophysics 594: A13. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201525830. ISSN 0004-6361.
12. ↑ "New view of Universe from Planck | University of Oxford Department of Physics". University of Oxford. https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/2013/03/25/new-view-of-universe-from-planck.
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Anon. "2013 Maxwell medal and prize". http://www.iop.org/about/awards/early-career/maxwell/medallists/page_60402.html.
14. ↑ Morgan, Gregg (21 March 2013). "New 'Big Bang' image explained: 'This is what the universe looked like'". https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/9946704/New-Big-Bang-image-explained-This-is-what-the-universe-looked-like.html.
15. ↑ "Jo Dunkley | Voices From Oxford". http://www.voicesfromoxford.org/people/jo-dunkley/230.
16. ↑ "Measuring the Universe". http://www.voicesfromoxford.org/video/measuring-the-universe/231.
17. ↑ "Dark energy spotted in the cosmic microwave background". http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2011/jul/15/dark-energy-spotted-in-the-cosmic-microwave-background.
18. ↑ University, Princeton. "Understanding the universe: Astrophysicist Dunkley shines through her research". http://research.princeton.edu/news/faculty-profiles/a/?id=17980.
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Zen, Lillienne (2016). "The astrophysicist on a mission to get more women into physics : Soapbox Science". http://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2016/11/16/the-astrophysicist-on-a-mission-to-get-more-women-into-physics.
20. ↑ "Princeton scientists share Breakthrough Prize for mapping the early universe". Princeton University. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/12/04/three-princeton-scientists-win-breakthrough-prize-mapping-early-universe.
21. ↑ "Talks – Jo Dunkley". http://physics.princeton.edu/~jdunkley/talks.html.
22. ↑ "Our model of the Universe". http://www.nam2014.org/public/public-talks/our-model-of-the-universe/.
23. ↑ "Before the Beginning, After the End". https://iai.tv/video/before-the-beginning-after-the-end.
24. ↑ Long, Max. "BBC brings Stargazing to Oxford". http://cherwell.org/2013/01/17/bbc-brings-stargazing-to-oxford/.
25. ↑ Goldshmidt, Pippa; Hershman, Tania (2015). I am because you are : a collection of new writing. Glasgow. ISBN 191044927X. OCLC 931161608.
26. ↑ Dunkley, Jo (2019) (in English). Our Universe: An Astronomer's Guide. Pelican Books. ISBN 9780674984288. OCLC 1046067886. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/288/288072/our-universe/9780241385395.html.
27. ↑ "Our Universe – Jo Dunkley". Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984288.
28. ↑ "Breakthrough Prize – Winners of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics And Mathematics Announced". https://breakthroughprize.org/News/54.
29. ↑ Anon (2018). "Professor Joanna DUNKLEY". The London Gazette. London. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3177573.
30. ↑ Qian, Kristin (2017). "University scientists share $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics". The Daily Princetonian. http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2017/12/university-scientists-share-3-million-breakthrough-prize-in-fundamental-physics.
31. ↑ Dunkley, Joanna (2016) Our window on the Universe – Rosalind Franklin Lecture 2016 by Professor Jo Dunkley on YouTube
32. ↑ Dunkley, Jo (2016). "Our window on the Universe". https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2016/11/rosalind-franklin-lecture/.
33. ↑ Anon (2015). "Joanna Dunkley". Royal Society. https://royalsociety.org/people/joanna-dunkley-12797/.
34. ↑ "Awards Made 2015". https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Awards_made/2015 Awards made.pdf.
35. ↑ Smith, Keith. "Winners of the 2014 awards, medals and prizes – full details". https://www.ras.org.uk/awards-and-grants/awards/2379-winners-of-the-2014-awards-medals-and-prizes.
36. ↑ "NASA – NASA's WMAP Science Team Awarded 2012 Gruber Cosmology Prize". https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/wmap-award.html.
37. ↑ "European Commission : CORDIS : Projects and Results : Fundamental Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background". Europa (web portal). http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/97512_en.html.
38. ↑ "NASA – 2007 NASA Honor Awards Ceremony". https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/news/AF/2007/Aug07_HonorAwards.html.

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