Professor Jo Dunkley

Biography

Jo Dunkley is the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. 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. 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 Breakthrough Prize with the WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) team. Dunkley’s book for the general public, Our Universe: An Astronomer’s Guide, was published in 2019, and she speaks regularly to public audiences. In 2019 she received an OBE for services to science, and in 2024 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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