1. Katherine Freese was born on 8 February 1957 and is a theoretical astrophysicist.
20 Facts About Katherine Freese
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Katherine Freese is currently a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds the Jeff and Gail Kodosky Endowed Chair in Physics.
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Katherine Freese is known for her work in theoretical cosmology at the interface of particle physics and astrophysics.
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Katherine Freese obtained her MA from Columbia University, and her PhD at the University of Chicago from advisor David Schramm.
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Katherine Freese moved to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she was the George E Uhlenbeck Professor of Physics.
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Katherine Freese has worked as the associate director of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics.
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In 2019, Katherine Freese moved to the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds the Jeff and Gail Kodosky Endowed Chair in Physics.
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Katherine Freese has contributed to early research on dark matter and dark energy.
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Katherine Freese was one of the first to propose ways to discover dark matter.
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Katherine Freese has proposed a model known as "Cardassian expansion," in which dark energy is replaced with a modification of Einstein's equations.
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Katherine Freese has worked on the beginnings of the universe, including the search for a successful inflationary theory to kick off the Big Bang.
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Katherine Freese's natural inflation model is a theoretically well-motivated variant of inflation; it uses axionic-type particles to provide the required flat potentials to drive the expansion.
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Katherine Freese has studied the Ultimate fate of the universe, including the fate of life in the universe.
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Katherine Freese has served on the board of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara and the board of the Aspen Center for Physics.
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Katherine Freese was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2009.
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Katherine Freese received a Simons Foundation Fellowship in Theoretical Physics in 2012.
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In September 2012, Katherine Freese was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Stockholm University.
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Katherine Freese is the daughter of Dr Elisabeth Bautz and Ernst Freese, a molecular biologist.
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Katherine Freese covers the contributions of Fritz Zwicky, for example, who was recently profiled as "the most important astronomer you've never heard of" and "the father of dark matter" on Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
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Katherine Freese has appeared in seasons 3 and 5 of Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman.