Devin George Edward Walker is an American theoretical particle physicist, best known for his work on dark matter.[1]

Devin George Edward Walker
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Hampton University
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical Physics
Particle Physics
InstitutionsDartmouth
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Stanford University
University of Washington
Doctoral advisorNima Arkani-Hamed
Howard Georgi

Education

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Devin Walker received his bachelor's degree in physics from Hampton University, where he studied with physics professor Warren Buck.[2][3] He studied dark matter as a doctoral student at Harvard University under Nima Arkani-Hamed, culminating in the thesis "Theories on the Origin of Mass and Dark Matter".[3] Walker became the first American-born and American-educated Black physicist to earn a doctorate from the Harvard Physics Department in 2005.[4]

Career

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Walker was awarded the prestigious President's Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley, during which he worked on a framework to detect electroweak symmetry breaking from generic Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data.[3] He went on to another postdoctoral appointment at Stanford, and a junior professorship at the University of Washington.[5]

Walker is currently a research professor at the Dartmouth Department of Physics and Astronomy.[5]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ Charlotte, Albright (25 September 2017). "Dark Matter: You Can't See It, but It's Everywhere". Dartmouth News. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  2. ^ Physics, American Institute of (2022-03-10). "Warren W. Buck". www.aip.org. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  3. ^ a b c "University of California - President's Postdoctoral Fellowship".
  4. ^ "Harvard PhD Theses in Physics, 2001-2020".
  5. ^ a b "Dartmouth Department of Physics and Astronomy". 23 September 2016.
  6. ^ "Fundamental Physics Innovation Awards". American Physical Society. March 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  7. ^ "Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs". National Academy of Sciences. 2019. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  8. ^ LHC Theory Initiative Fellowship 2010
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