Professor Cora Dvorkin | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Education | PhD, University of Chicago |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (PhD) University of Buenos Aires (BSc) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical cosmology |
| Institutions | Harvard University Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) |
| Thesis | On the imprints of inflation in the Cosmic Microwave Background. (2011) |
| Doctoral advisor | Prof. Wayne Hu |
| Website | www |
Cora Dvorkin is an Argentine physicist, who is a professor at the physics department at Harvard University. Dvorkin is a theoretical cosmologist. Her areas of research are: the nature of dark matter, neutrinos and other light relics, and the physics of the early universe. Dvorkin is the Harvard Representative at the newly NSF-funded Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI)'s Board.[1][2] In 2022, she was voted “favorite professor” by the Harvard senior Class of 2023. She has been awarded the 2019 DOE Early Career award and has been named the "2018 Scientist of the year" by the Harvard Foundation for "Salient Contributions to Physics, Cosmology and STEM Education".[3] She has also been awarded a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and a Shutzer Professorship at the Radcliffe Institute. In 2018 she was awarded a Star Family Challenge prize for Promising Scientific Research, which supports high-risk, high-impact scientific research at Harvard. In 2020, Dvorkin gave a talk on machine learning applied to the search for dark matter as part of the TEDx Río de la Plata event.[4]