Scott Dodelson

Scott Dodelson is a distinguished scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois and a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago. He has mentored many graduate students directly in their research and by serving as head of the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania and as co-chair of the Science Committee of the Dark Energy Survey. He is the author of two textbooks, Modern Cosmology and Gravitational Lensing, and writes a weekly column about science and society.