Cora Dvorkin
Physics, Harvard University
Research Focus
Research Interests
About Cora
Dr. Cora Dvorkin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Harvard University. Prof. Dvorkin is a theoretical cosmologist. Her areas of interest are: the physics of the early universe, the particle nature of dark matter, neutrinos/light relics.
She was the co-leader of the Inflation and Dark Matter analysis groups for the CMB-S4 experiment.
Prof. Dvorkin is the Harvard Representative at the newly NSF-funded Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI)’s Board.
Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she received her Diploma in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires. She earned her Ph.D. in the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago. She has conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (from 2011 to 2014) and at the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University (from 2014 to 2015), where she was both a Hubble Fellow and an ITC fellow.
Honors
2019 - Dvorkin has been awarded the 2019 DOE Early Career award
2018 - She has been named the "2018 Scientist of the year" by the Harvard Foundation for "Salient Contributions to Physics, Cosmology and STEM Education"
2012 - In 2012, she was given the "Martin and Beate Block Award", awarded to the best young physicist by the Aspen Center for Physics.
She has been awarded a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship for 2018-2019 and a Shutzer Professorship at the Radcliffe Institute for the period 2015-2019
Education
Postdoc
ITC, Harvard University, 07/2015
School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, 07/2014
Ph.D.
Physics, University of Chicago, 07/2011
Bachelor's
Physics, University of Buenos Aires, 06/2005
