Devin George Edward Walker is an American theoretical particle physicist, best known for his work on dark matter.[1]
Education
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
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
2020 - Moore Prize from the American Physical Society[6]
2011 - Ford Foundation Fellowship[7]
2010 - LHC Theory Initiative Fellowship[8]
References
Charlotte, Albright (25 September 2017). "Dark Matter: You Can't See It, but It's Everywhere". Dartmouth News. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
Physics, American Institute of (2022-03-10). "Warren W. Buck". www.aip.org. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
"University of California - President's Postdoctoral Fellowship".
"Harvard PhD Theses in Physics, 2001-2020".
"Dartmouth Department of Physics and Astronomy". 23 September 2016.
"Fundamental Physics Innovation Awards". American Physical Society. March 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
"Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs". National Academy of Sciences. 2019. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
LHC Theory Initiative Fellowship 2010
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