Rachel Mandelbaum is a professor of astrophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, studying cosmology and galactic evolution with a focus on dark matter and dark energy.
in physics with highest honors from Princeton University in 2000.
She received her Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 2006[1] and is a tenured associate professor of physics at the Carnegie Mellon University.
[2] Mandelbaum studies cosmology using the technique of weak gravitational lensing.
[6] Mandelbaum has received numerous awards including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2013, the Department of Energy Early Career Award in 2012[7] and the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy from the American Astronomical Society in 2011.