Rachel Bean
Rachel Bean is a cosmologist and theoretical astrophysicist. She is a professor of astronomy at Cornell University.Education
Bean received her bachelor’s degree from Cambridge University. After graduation, she worked in the Strategy Division at Accenture before returning to academia. She received her master’s and doctorate in theoretical physics from Imperial College London. She did postdoctoral research at Princeton University, before becoming a faculty member at Cornell University in 2005.Research
Bean’s research focuses on cosmological tests of the nature of dark energy and gravity, and the physical origins of primordial inflation, using data from large-scale structure and the cosmic microwave background. She is actively involved in a number of international astronomical surveys including the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, and the Euclid mission.Awards
