[8][1][5] 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).

[9][10] 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.

"[9] Soon after she began working with the European Space Agency (ESA) Planck satellite,[11] which produced a higher-resolution view of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) compared to WMAP.

[6] Dunkley led analysis for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile, using gravitational lensing to identify dark matter.

[2][26][27] 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.