Scott Dodelson is an American physicist. He is a professor of physics at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

and chair of its physics department.

Biography

Dodelson received his B.A., B.S., and Ph.D. from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

. His thesis supervisor was

Gerald Feinberg Gerald Feinberg (27 May 1933 – 21 April 1992) was a Columbia University physicist, futurist and populist author. He spent a year as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and two years at the Brookhaven Laboratories. Feinberg went to ...

. He was a research fellow at Harvard University before moving to the

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics. Since 2007, Fermilab has been operat ...

. He joined the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

faculty in 1998 and was professor until 2017, when he joined Carnegie Mellon University. His research has focused on the intersection of physics and cosmology and has out studies on dark matter, dark energy, and cosmological neutrinos. He has played a key role in numerous cosmological surveys, including co-chairing the Science Committee of the

Dark Energy Survey The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is an astronomical survey designed to constrain the properties of dark energy. It uses images taken in the near-ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared to measure the expansion of the universe using Type Ia supernova ...

. From 2006 to 2008, Dodelson was interim director of the

Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics The Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics is a part of Fermilab that unifies the astrophysics program at Fermilab and teaches and studies the interface of particle physics and cosmology. The center is headed by Craig Hogan, director and Dan ...

. He was head of Fermilab's Theoretical Astrophysics Group from 2001 to 2006. Dodelson is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He was managing editor of

International Journal of Modern Physics D The ''International Journal of Modern Physics'' is a series of Physics journals published by World Scientific. ''International Journal of Modern Physics A'' The ''International Journal of Modern Physics A'' was established in 1986, and covers ...

from 2004 to 2008. He is the author of the astrophysics textbook ''Modern Cosmology''. The minor planet

148707 Dodelson Year 1487 ( MCDLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * January 29 – Richard Foxe becomes Bishop of Exeter. * March – Sigismund ...

is named after him.

References

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