Summary
Rachel Bean is a cosmologist and theoretical astrophysicist.[1] She is a professor of astronomy[2] and the interim dean of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences.
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 |
Education edit
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]
Career edit
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]
On July 13, 2023, Bean succeeded Ray Jayawardhana as the interim dean of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences.[4]
Awards edit
- 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics[5] (for the results of the WMAP mission)
- 2016 Fellow, American Physical Society[6]
- 2012 Gruber Prize in Cosmology, for the results of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) mission[7]
- 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)[8]
- 2008 Cottrell Scholar Award, Research Corporation. [3]
- 2007 NASA Group Achievement Award (for the results of the WMAP mission)[1]
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ Fleischman, Tom (July 12, 2023). "A&S dean Jayawardhana named provost at Johns Hopkins | Cornell Chronicle". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- ^ 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.