Kathryn Zurek

Kathryn M. Zurek is an American physicist and Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology.

Kathryn Zurek
Born
Alma materBethel University
University of Washington
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
ThesisLooking beyond standard neutrino and axion phenomenology and cosmology
Doctoral advisorDavid B. Kaplan

She is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society.[1][2]

Biography

Zurek was born and raised in Minnesota. She earned her bachelor's degree in physics from Bethel University in 2001. She graduate summa cum laude. The then received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Washington in 2006. Afterwards, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[3]

From 2009 to 2014, she worked as a professor at the University of Michigan.

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References

  1. "Fellows". aps.org. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
  2. "Kathryn Zurek". aps.org. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
  3. "Kathryn Zurek". Simons Foundation. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2020.


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