Regular biography
Daniel M. Scolnic is an Associate Professor of Physics at Duke University, affiliated with the Department of Physics and the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. His research focuses on observational tools to measure the expansion history of the universe, aiming to address fundamental questions about dark energy. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke. His work includes studies on asteroid impact risks, interstellar comets, and cosmological analyses using Type Ia supernovae. Scolnic has received grants from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Energy, and the David & Lucile Packard Foundation. His research is supported by the Duke Cosmology Group and accessible via his Scholars@Duke profile.
Scholar-generated biography
Daniel Scolnic is an Associate Professor of Physics at Duke University, specializing in supernova cosmology and dark energy research. His work focuses on understanding the universe's expansion rate and the nature of dark energy through observations of supernovae, gravitational waves, and cosmic shear. Scolnic's research includes the measurement of the Hubble constant using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Dark Energy Survey, and gravitational wave events like GW170817. His contributions span the analysis of light curves, galaxy clustering, and weak lensing to constrain cosmological models and address tensions in the standard ΛCDM framework.