Professor Jo Dunkley OBE
Jo Dunkley is the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. She was previously Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, where she was a Tutorial Fellow of Exeter College. Her research is in cosmology, studying the origins and evolution of the Universe. She plays leading roles in the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Simons Observatory projects, both of which are large international collaborations. She has been awarded the Maxwell Medal, the Rosalind Franklin award and the New Horizons prize for her work on the cosmic microwave background, and she shared the Gruber Prize and the Breakthrough Prize with the WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) team.
Beyond her academic work, her book for the general public, Our Universe: An Astronomer’s Guide (2019), was published by Penguin (UK/Canada) and Harvard University Press (US), and translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and Korean.
