The Canadian multidisciplinary research organization CIFAR named her one of the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars in 2022. She joined the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in June 2022, as the inaugural Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication. In January 2018, Mack became an Assistant Professor and a member of university's Leadership in Public Science Cluster in the Department of Physics at North Carolina State University. Mack was involved with the construction of the dark matter detector SABRE.

Later in 2012, Mack was a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Research and career Īfter earning her doctorate, Mack joined the University of Cambridge as a Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) postdoctoral research fellow at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology. Her thesis on the early universe was supervised by Paul Steinhardt. Mack obtained her PhD in astrophysics from Princeton University in 2009. She received her undergraduate degree in physics in 2003. Mack attended California Institute of Technology, and appeared as an extra in the opening credits of the 2001 American comedy film Legally Blonde when they filmed on campus. She became more interested in spacetime and the Big Bang after attending talks by scientists such as Stephen Hawking. Her grandfather was a student at Caltech and worked on the Apollo 11 mission. Her mother is a fan of science fiction, and encouraged Mack to watch Star Trek and Star Wars. Mack became interested in science as a child and built solar-powered cars out of Lego blocks. Early life and education External videoĪ Tour of the Universe: Women in Physics Lecture Mack is also a popular science communicator who participates in social media and regularly writes for Scientific American, Slate, Sky & Telescope, Time, and Cosmos. Her academic research investigates dark matter, vacuum decay and the epoch of reionisation.

Mack (born ) is a theoretical cosmologist who holds the Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at Perimeter Institute.

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