Dr. Alexandra Amon giving a talk entitled "Our place in the Universe", on the Universe Stage, at New Scientist Live 2022
Dr. Alexandra Amon is a cosmologist based at Cambridge University and Trinity College as a Senior Kavli Fellow. Her research focuses on understanding the Dark Universe, primarily using a tool called ‘weak gravitational lensing’. After growing up in Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Amon studied at the University of Edinburgh, with her doctorate thesis winning the Royal Astronomical Society Michael Penston Thesis Prize for the best PhD in the field. Afterwards, she was a research fellow at Stanford University and at present, she coordinates the lensing team from the Dark Energy Survey - a large international collaboration. Our planet is an almost infinitesimal speck in the cosmos. It orbits the Sun, one of billions of ordinary stars, which hurtles through our Milky Way galaxy and even our galaxy is one of many in our Dark Universe. Yet, in humans’ insignificant snippet in the grand story of the Universe, we have made strides in understanding what’s out there. It wasn’t an easy journey: the Universe has turned our grandest thoughts upside down. Alexandra Amon will guide us through what’s out there and how astrophysicists are getting ready to learn more.
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