Members – BOUNCING COSMOLOGY

Principal Investigator

He is the Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University, with appointments in both the Department of Physics and the Department of Astrophysical Sciences. His research spans a broad range of fundamental problems in particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, condensed matter physics, and geophysics. He is one of the principal architects of inflationary cosmology and has more recently played a leading role in the development of bouncing and cyclic models of the universe. He has also made influential contributions to the study of quintessence—models in which dark energy evolves with time—and to novel theories of dark matter, including self-interacting dark matter.

Associates

Professor of Physics at Oakland University. His research is in numerical relativity: the use of computer simulations to study the properties of singularities, critical gravitational collapse, cosmic censorship, and the evolution of inhomogeneities in the early universe.

Professor of Physics at Princeton University. His research focus is general relativity. He uses numerical solution methods to study the dynamical strong-field regime of the theory, including gravitational-wave sources, black holes, and cosmological singularities.

Senior Research Scientist at New York University. Her research lies at the intersection of gravitational theory and cosmology. She uses the tools of both general relativity and quantum field theory to study different models of the universe with the aim of ultimately developing an improved cosmology that provides an explanation of current observational data.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Miriam Khaldieh

Uri Peleg

Graduate Students

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Undergraduate Students

Sufia Birmingham
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