Marc Kamionkowski

Marc Kamionkowski earned a B.A. (1987) at Washington University and a Ph.D. (1991) at the University of Chicago. These were followed by postdoctoral study at the Institute for Advanced Study (1991-1994) and faculty positions at Columbia University (1994-1999) and Caltech (1999–2011). From 2006 to 2011 he was the inaugural director of Caltech’s Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology. In 2011 he joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University where he is now the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor. Kamionkowski is a theoretical physicist interested in cosmology, particle physics, gravity, and astrophysics. His most significant research contributions are in the theory of dark matter, dark energy, the cosmic microwave background, and resolutions to the Hubble tension, but he has also worked on other subjects in astrophysics and cosmology. His honors include the AAS/AIP Dannie Heineman (2015) prize, the DoE’s E. O. Lawrence Award (2006), and the Gruber Cosmology Prize (2020), and membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the Astrophysics and Cosmology Editor (since 1998) and Editor-in-Chief (since 2008) of Physics Reports.