{{short description|British astrophysicist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Use British English|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox scientist | birth_name = Joanna Dunkley | name = Jo Dunkley | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE|FRS|size=100%}} | image = Jo Dunkley delivers plenary lecture (19566551321) (cropped).jpg | caption = Jo Dunkley delivering a plenary lecture in 2015 | education = North London Collegiate School<ref name=standard/> | birth_date = {{Birth based on age as of date|39|2019|01|30}}<ref name=standard>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190131220256/https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/jo-dunkley-professor-our-universe-an-astronomers-guide-a4052746.html|archivedate=31 January 2019|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/jo-dunkley-professor-our-universe-an-astronomers-guide-a4052746.html|work=London Evening Standard|first=Katie|last=Law|year=2019|location=London|title=Astrophysics professor Jo Dunkley on the complexities of the universe and her mission to get women into science}}</ref> | alma_mater = University of Cambridge (MSci)<br>University of Oxford (DPhil) | thesis_title = Modern methods for cosmological parameter estimation : beyond the adiabatic paradigm | thesis_year = 2005 | thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441310 | doctoral_advisor = Pedro G. Ferreira | notable_students = Renée Hložek | awards = {{Plainlist| * New Horizons in Physics Prize (2020) * Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2017) * Rosalind Franklin Award (2016) * Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2015) * Philip Leverhulme Prize (2015) * Maxwell Medal and Prize (2013)}} | children = two<ref name=fara/> | partner = Faramerz Dabhoiwala<ref name=fara>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/books/faramerz-dabhoiwala-of-origins-of-sex-at-museum-of-sex.html|title=This Revolution Was British, Fired by Libidos|work=The New York Times|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322224821/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/books/faramerz-dabhoiwala-of-origins-of-sex-at-museum-of-sex.html|archivedate=22 March 2018|date=29 February 2012|first=Jennifer|last=Schussler|location=New York City}}</ref> | workplaces = Princeton University<br>University of Oxford | fields = Cosmology<br>Cosmic microwave background<br/>Neutrinos<ref name=googlescholar/> | website = {{URL|http://physics.princeton.edu/~jdunkley}} }}
'''Joanna Dunkley''' {{post-nominals|OBE|FRS}} is a British astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at Princeton University, New Jersey, United States. She works on the origin of the Universe and the Cosmic microwave background (CMB)<ref name="StaggsDunkley2018">{{cite journal|last1=Staggs|first1=Suzanne|last2=Dunkley|first2=Jo|last3=Page|first3=Lyman|title=Recent discoveries from the cosmic microwave background: a review of recent progress|journal=Reports on Progress in Physics|volume=81|issue=4|year=2018|pages=044901|issn=0034-4885|doi=10.1088/1361-6633/aa94d5|pmid= 29051392|bibcode=2018RPPh...81d4901S |s2cid=4028322 }}</ref> using the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the Simons Observatory and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).<ref name=googlescholar>{{Google scholar id}}</ref><ref name=scopus>{{Scopus id}}</ref>
== Education == Dunkley was educated at North London Collegiate School<ref name=standard/> and the University of Cambridge, where she graduated in 2001 with a Master of Science (MSci) degree in Natural Sciences (Theoretical Physics). She was an undergraduate student of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://physics.princeton.edu/~jdunkley/cv.pdf|title=Jo Dunkley CV|last=Dunkley|first=Jo|website=princeton.edu|url-status=|access-date=19 January 2018|year=2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123131207/http://physics.princeton.edu/~jdunkley/cv.pdf|archivedate=23 January 2018}}</ref> She moved to Oxford for postgraduate study where she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in 2005 for research supervised by astrophysicist Pedro G. Ferreira. She was a postgraduate student of Magdalen College, Oxford.<ref name=dunkdphil>{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|publisher=University of Oxford|url=https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/11428823?style=html|title=Modern methods for cosmological parameter estimation : beyond the adiabatic paradigm|first=Joanna|last=Dunkley|year=2005|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.441310}}|website=copac.jisc.ac.uk|oclc=500732473|access-date=1 February 2019|archive-date=1 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190201172427/https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/11428823?style=html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Research and career== Her research is in cosmology, studying the chronology of the universe using the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the Simons Observatory, and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://physics.princeton.edu/~jdunkley/|title=Jo Dunkley – About|website=physics.princeton.edu|access-date=22 March 2018|archive-date=19 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210919000438/https://physics.princeton.edu//~jdunkley/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=googlescholar/><ref name=scopus/>
After her DPhil, she joined Princeton University as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2006, working with David Spergel and Lyman Page on NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP).<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/07/13/understanding-universe-astrophysicist-dunkley-shines-through-her-research|title=Understanding the universe: Astrophysicist Dunkley shines through her research|publisher=Princeton University|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref><ref name="KomatsuDunkley2009">{{cite journal|last1=Komatsu|first1=E.|last2=Dunkley|first2=J.|last3=Nolta|first3=M. R.|last4=Bennett|first4=C. L.|last5=Gold|first5=B.|last6=Hinshaw|first6=G.|last7=Jarosik|first7=N.|last8=Larson|first8=D.|last9=Limon|first9=M.|last10=Page|first10=L.|last11=Spergel|first11=D. N.|last12=Halpern|first12=M.|last13=Hill|first13=R. S.|last14=Kogut|first14=A.|last15=Meyer|first15=S. S.|last16=Tucker|first16=G. S.|last17=Weiland|first17=J. L.|last18=Wollack|first18=E.|last19=Wright|first19=E. L.|title=Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation|arxiv=0803.0547|journal=The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series|volume=180|issue=2|year=2009|pages=330–376|issn=0067-0049|doi=10.1088/0067-0049/180/2/330|s2cid=17581520 }}</ref> In an interview at Princeton in 2017, Spergel said she quickly "made major contributions to the analysis that led to the development of what we now think of as the standard model of cosmology."<ref name=":1" /> Soon after she began working with the European Space Agency (ESA) Planck satellite,<ref name="AdeAghanim2016">{{cite journal|last1=Ade|first1=P. A. R.|last2=Aghanim|first2=N.|author2-link=Nabila Aghanim|last3=Arnaud|first3=M.|last4=Ashdown|first4=M.|last5=Aumont|first5=J.|last6=Baccigalupi|first6=C.|last7=Banday|first7=A. J.|last8=Barreiro|first8=R. B.|last9=Bartlett|first9=J. 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M.|last258=Wilkinson|first258=A.|last259=Yvon|first259=D.|last260=Zacchei|first260=A.|last261=Zonca|first261=A.|title=Planck2015 results|journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics|volume=594|year=2016|pages=A13|issn=0004-6361|doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201525830|display-authors=11|arxiv=1502.01589|s2cid=119262962 }}</ref> which produced a higher-resolution view of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) compared to WMAP.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/2013/03/25/new-view-of-universe-from-planck|title=New view of Universe from Planck {{!}} University of Oxford Department of Physics|publisher=University of Oxford|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref> thumb|Atacama Cosmology Telescope from distance Dunkley moved to Oxford in 2007 and was promoted to Professor of Astrophysics in 2014.<ref name=":0" /> Dunkley led analysis for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile, using gravitational lensing to identify dark matter.<ref name=":1" /> At Oxford her work included constraints on the number of possible neutrino species in the world.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.iop.org/about/awards/early-career/maxwell/medallists/page_60402.html|title=2013 Maxwell medal and prize|author=Anon|website=iop.org|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref> The images of the CMB, released in 2013, showed the universe at only 400,000 years old.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/9946704/New-Big-Bang-image-explained-This-is-what-the-universe-looked-like.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213233350/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/9946704/New-Big-Bang-image-explained-This-is-what-the-universe-looked-like.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 February 2016|title=New 'Big Bang' image explained: 'This is what the universe looked like'|website=The Daily Telegraph|last=Morgan|first=Gregg|date=21 March 2013|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref> Her research combines theoretical physics with statistical analysis and uses her models to understand the universe from cosmological observations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.voicesfromoxford.org/people/jo-dunkley/230|title=Jo Dunkley {{!}} Voices From Oxford|website=voicesfromoxford.org|access-date=19 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120070429/http://www.voicesfromoxford.org/people/jo-dunkley/230|archive-date=20 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> Alongside estimating how much the universe weighs, Dunkley can identify the proportions of dark energy and dark matter.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.voicesfromoxford.org/video/measuring-the-universe/231|title=Measuring the Universe|website=voicesfromoxford.org|access-date=19 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120124155/http://www.voicesfromoxford.org/video/measuring-the-universe/231|archive-date=20 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> She used gravitational lensing within the CMB as evidence for dark energy within the universe, selected by ''Physics Today'' as a highlight of 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2011/jul/15/dark-energy-spotted-in-the-cosmic-microwave-background|title=Dark energy spotted in the cosmic microwave background |website=physicsworld.com|date=15 July 2011 |access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref>
Dunkley rejoined Princeton in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://research.princeton.edu/news/faculty-profiles/a/?id=17980|title=Understanding the universe: Astrophysicist Dunkley shines through her research|last=University|first=Princeton|website=research.princeton.edu|access-date=19 January 2018|archive-date=15 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180315211218/http://research.princeton.edu/news/faculty-profiles/a/?id=17980|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her new research, using the Simons Observatory, looks for "new physics, complexities and extra particles that could have existed when the universe was very young,".<ref name="blogs.nature.com">{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2016/11/16/the-astrophysicist-on-a-mission-to-get-more-women-into-physics|title=The astrophysicist on a mission to get more women into physics : Soapbox Science|first=Lillienne|last=Zen|year=2016|website=Nature|access-date=19 January 2018|archive-date=5 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005134940/http://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2016/11/16/the-astrophysicist-on-a-mission-to-get-more-women-into-physics|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2017, she was awarded the Breakthrough Prize for Physics with 22 members of the NASA WMAP Science Team.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/12/04/three-princeton-scientists-win-breakthrough-prize-mapping-early-universe|title=Princeton scientists share Breakthrough Prize for mapping the early universe|publisher=Princeton University|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref>
=== Public engagement === Dunkley has given numerous public lectures and seminars.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://physics.princeton.edu/~jdunkley/talks.html|title=Talks – Jo Dunkley|website=physics.princeton.edu|access-date=19 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023194554/http://physics.princeton.edu/~jdunkley/talks.html|archive-date=23 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> She has made appearances on BBC ''Stargazing Live'' and Dara Ó Briain's Science Club.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nam2014.org/public/public-talks/our-model-of-the-universe/|title=Our model of the Universe|website=nam2014.org|access-date=19 January 2018|archive-date=15 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210915045536/http://www.nam2014.org/public/public-talks/our-model-of-the-universe/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://iai.tv/video/before-the-beginning-after-the-end|title=Before the Beginning, After the End|website=iai.tv|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://cherwell.org/2013/01/17/bbc-brings-stargazing-to-oxford/|title=BBC brings Stargazing to Oxford|last=Long|first=Max|website=cherwell.org|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref> She is mentioned in Pippa Goldschmidt's ''I Am Because You Are: An anthology of stories celebrating the centenary of the General Theory of Relativity''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=I am because you are : a collection of new writing|last1=Goldshmidt|year=2015|first1=Pippa|last2=Hershman|first2=Tania|isbn=978-1910449271|location=Glasgow|oclc=931161608}}</ref> Her first book, ''Our Universe: An Astronomer's Guide'' was published in 2019.<ref name=standard/><ref name=astroguide>{{Cite book|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/288/288072/our-universe/9780241385395.html|title=Our Universe: An Astronomer's Guide|last=Dunkley|first=Jo|date=2019|publisher=Pelican Books|isbn=9780674984288|language=English|oclc=1046067886|access-date=1 February 2019|archive-date=2 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802135303/https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/288/288072/our-universe/9780241385395.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=hup>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984288|title=Our Universe – Jo Dunkley |website=hup.harvard.edu|publisher=Harvard University Press|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref> She will deliver a series of workshops and talks for students to raise awareness of women's contributions to astronomy as part of a book tour.<ref name="blogs.nature.com"/>
=== Awards and honours === Dunkley has won several awards and honours including:
*2024 – Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/jo-dunkley-36725/|publisher=Royal Society|author=Anon|title=Professor Jo Dunkley OBE FRS|year=2024 |website=royalsociety.org}}</ref> * 2020 – New Horizons in Physics Prize<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://breakthroughprize.org/News/54|title=Breakthrough Prize – Winners of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics And Mathematics Announced|website=breakthroughprize.org|access-date=2 October 2019}}</ref> * 2019 – Appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to Science<ref name="obe">{{cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3177573|work=The London Gazette|title=Professor Joanna DUNKLEY|author=Anon|year=2018|location=London}}</ref> * 2017 – Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2017/12/university-scientists-share-3-million-breakthrough-prize-in-fundamental-physics|title=University scientists share $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics|work=The Daily Princetonian|first=Kristin |last=Qian|year=2017 |access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref> shared with 22 members of the NASA WMAP Science Team. * 2016 – Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture<ref name=roz>Dunkley, Joanna (2016) {{YouTube|id=wc-CyE3GPSM|title=Our window on the Universe – Rosalind Franklin Lecture 2016 by Professor Jo Dunkley}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2016/11/rosalind-franklin-lecture/|title=Our window on the Universe|last=Dunkley|first=Jo|year=2016|website=royalsociety.org|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref> * 2015 – Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award<ref>{{Cite web|author=Anon|year=2015|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/joanna-dunkley-12797/|title=Joanna Dunkley|website=royalsociety.org|publisher=Royal Society|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref> * 2015 – Awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Awards_made/2015%20Awards%20made.pdf|title=Awards Made 2015|website=leverhulme.ac.uk|access-date=19 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227214036/https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Awards_made/2015%20Awards%20made.pdf|archive-date=27 February 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2014 – Awarded the Fowler Prize by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ras.org.uk/awards-and-grants/awards/2379-winners-of-the-2014-awards-medals-and-prizes|title=Winners of the 2014 awards, medals and prizes – full details|last=Smith|first=Keith|website=ras.org.uk|access-date=19 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328004146/http://www.ras.org.uk/awards-and-grants/awards/2379-winners-of-the-2014-awards-medals-and-prizes|archive-date=28 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2013 – Maxwell Medal and Prize<ref name=":2" /> * 2012 – Gruber Prize in Cosmology, shared with the WMAP team<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/wmap-award.html|title=NASA – NASA's WMAP Science Team Awarded 2012 Gruber Cosmology Prize|website=nasa.gov|date=7 June 2013 |access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref> * 2010 – Starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/97512_en.html|title=European Commission : CORDIS : Projects and Results : Fundamental Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background|publisher=Europa (web portal)|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref> * 2007 – NASA Group Achievement Award, shared with the WMAP team<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/news/AF/2007/Aug07_HonorAwards.html|title=NASA – 2007 NASA Honor Awards Ceremony|website=nasa.gov|access-date=19 January 2018|archive-date=15 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210915045530/https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/news/AF/2007/Aug07_HonorAwards.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Personal life== Dunkley has two children with her partner, the historian Faramerz Dabhoiwala.<ref name=fara/><ref name=standard/>
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