Marc Kamionkowski Explained

Marc Kamionkowski
Birth Date:	1965
Birth Place:	Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Nationality:	American
Fields:	Physics, Astrophysics
Doctoral Advisor:	Michael Turner
Doctoral Students:	Adrienne Erickcek Kris Sigurdson

Marc Kamionkowski (born 1965)^[1] is an American theoretical physicist and currently the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include particle physics, dark matter, inflation, the cosmic microwave background and gravitational waves.

Career

Kamionkowski received a BA degree in 1987 from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in 1991 from the University of Chicago. He did postdoctoral study at the Institute for Advanced Study and joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1994 as an assistant professor of physics. From 1999 to 2006, Kamionkowski was a professor at The California Institute of Technology, and from 2006 to 2011 the Robinson Professor of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics. He joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins as professor in 2011.^[2] He is known primarily for work on supersymmetric dark matter and the cosmic microwave background. He was awarded the US Department of Energy's 2006 E. O. Lawrence Award in High Energy and Nuclear Physics for "his theoretical analyses demonstrating that precise observations of the cosmic microwave background can lead to deep understanding of the origin and evolution of the Universe, thereby motivating a series of increasingly precise cosmological experiments".^[3]

Academic positions

• 2016Present: William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University.
• 20112015: Professor of physics and astronomy, Johns Hopkins University.
• 2010 Fall: Miller Visiting Research Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley.
• 20062012: Robinson Professor of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology.
• 20062011: Founding director, Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology and Physics, California Institute or Technology.
• 19962007: Professor of theoretical physics and astrophysics, California Institute of Technology
• 19981999: Associate professor, Department of Physics, Columbia University.
• 19941998: Assistant professor, Department of Physics, Columbia University.

Awards and fellowships

• National Merit Scholar (1983-1987)^[4]
• Phi Beta Kappa (1986)
• NASA GSRP Fellow (1989)
• SSC National Fellowship (1991)
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (1996)
• DoE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award (1998)
• Helen B. Warner Prize (1998)^[5]
• E. O. Lawrence Award (2006)^[6]
• American Physical Society Fellowship (2008)^[7]
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013)^[1]
• Simons Investigator (2014)^[8]
• Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (2015)^[9]
• International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation Fellowship (2016)^[10]
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017)^[11]
• National Academy of Sciences (2019)^[12]
• Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (2020)^[13]
• Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2021), jointly with Uroš Seljak and Matias Zaldarriaga^[14]

External links

• Home page
• Papers at arXiv.org (physics preprint server)
• Gravity Waves from Big Bang Detected. Clara Moskowitz. Clara Moskowitz . Scientific American. March 17, 2014.
• News: Cosmic inflation: 'Spectacular' discovery hailed. Jonathan Amos. 17 March 2014. BBC News.
  • The Kathleen Dunn Show - Wisconsin Radio
• News: Big Bang News: Did the Earth just move for cosmology?. Jeremy Wilks. Euronews. 20 March 2014.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. December 27, 2019.
2. Web site: Renowned Theoretical Physicist Marc Kamionkowski Joins Johns Hopkins Faculty. Press release. June 27, 2011. Johns Hopkins University

   Office of Communications

   . December 27, 2019.
3. Kaplan, Karen H.. Lawrence award winners are selected. Physics Today. April 2007. 75. 60. 4. American Institute of Physics. 10.1063/1.2731985.
4. Web site: Kamionkowski CV.
5. Marc Kamionkowski received the Helen B. Warner Prize 1998 of the American Astronomical Society.. 1998. Physics Today. 51. 7. T79. 1998PhT....51T..79.. 10.1063/1.2805875.
6. Web site: Marc Kamionkowski, 2006. 28 December 2010 . December 27, 2019.
7. Web site: APS Fellow Archive. American Physical Society. December 27, 2019.
8. Web site: Simons Investigators. Simons Foundation. December 27, 2019.
9. Web site: Baltimore Astrophysicist Marc Kamionkowski Wins 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize. American Institute of Physics. January 16, 2015. December 27, 2019.
10. Web site: Fellows of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. December 27, 2019.
11. Web site: November 21, 2017. AAS Members Among 2017 Class of AAAS Fellows. Richard Fienberg. December 27, 2019.
12. Web site: Marc P. Kamionkowski. National Academy of Sciences. December 27, 2019.
13. Web site: Four Johns Hopkins faculty members named American Astronomical Society fellows. 2020-03-04. The Hub. Johns Hopkins University. en. 2020-03-06.
14. Web site: 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize . 6 May 2021 . gruber.yale.edu.