Rachel Bean Explained

Awards:Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Cottrell Scholar Award
NASA Group Achievement Award
Education:Cambridge University
Alma Mater:Imperial College London
Discipline:Astronomy
Sub Discipline:Dark energy
Workplaces:Cornell University

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.

Education

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

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.

On July 13, 2023, Bean succeeded Ray Jayawardhana as the interim dean of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences.[4]

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bio Rachel Bean. blogs.cornell.edu. en-US. 2017-11-15.
  2. Web site: Department of Astronomy Cornell University. 28 April 2020. The Department of Astronomy.
  3. Web site: Rachel Esther Bean Curriculum Vitae. 28 April 2020. National Science Foundation.
  4. Web site: Fleischman . Tom . July 12, 2023 . A&S dean Jayawardhana named provost at Johns Hopkins Cornell Chronicle . 2023-07-15 . Cornell Chronicle . en.
  5. News: Friedlander. Blaine. Astronomer shares $3M physics Breakthrough Prize. 6 December 2017. Cornell Chronicle. 28 April 2020.
  6. Web site: Fellows. aps.org. April 20, 2017.
  7. Web site: Gruber Cosmology Prize Citation. 28 April 2020. Gruber Foundation.
  8. Web site: Obama White House Archives. 11 May 2010. The White House President Barack Obama.