Kimberly Boddy
Theory Group, The University of Texas at Austin
Research Focus
Research Interests
About Kimberly
I am a theoretical physicist with interests in particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. I received my SB in physics from MIT and PhD in physics from Caltech. I was a postdoc at the University of Hawaii, Manoa and at Johns Hopkins University. I am now an assistant professor in the Theory Group at the University of Texas at Austin.
My research is mostly focused on understanding the fundamental nature of dark matter through cosmological observations (e.g., cosmic microwave background, large-scale structure, galaxy populations) and in astrophysical systems (e.g., indirect detection, dark matter halo properties). I have also recently been interested in dark-sector model building, the Hubble tension, and the detection of a stochastic gravitational wave background. A list of my publications can be found on INSPIRE.
Honors
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (as part of the Daya Bay Collaboration)
Johns Hopkins University Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowship
Education
Postdoc
Johns Hopkins University
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Ph.D.
Physics, California Institute of Technology
Bachelor's
Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
