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Principal Investigator<\/h3>\n
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Paul Steinhardt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2014models in which dark energy evolves with time\u2014and to novel theories of dark matter, including self-interacting dark matter.<\/p>\n

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Associates<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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David Garfinkle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Frans Pretorius<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Anna Rozenweig<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/i>\u00a0<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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Postdoctoral Fellows<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Alek Bedroya 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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Miriam Khaldieh<\/p>\n

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Ana Kozlov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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J\u00e1nos \u00d6st\u00f6r<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Nicolas Patino<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Joshua Shterenberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Undergraduate Students<\/h3>\n
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Ana Pantoja Alfaro 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sufia Birmingham
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