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ICTP Simons Associate Amanda Weltman is the South African Research Chair in Physical Cosmology and a full professor at the University of Cape Town, in South Africa. In her work, Weltman tries to uncover the fundamental laws governing our Universe using tools from particle physics. She has also been working in collaboration with experimentalists to find out how fast radio bursts can tell us more about the origin of the universe.
Weltman did her undergraduate studies at the University of Cape Town, her PhD at Columbia University, in New York, under the supervision of Brian Greene. As a graduate student, she co-authored a series of papers on Chameleon Gravity. She later went on to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, in the UK. She has been the director of the High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Astrophysics Theory (HEPCAT) group at the University of Cape Town since 2018.
ICTP Simons Associate Amanda Weltman is the South African Research Chair in Physical Cosmology and a full professor at the University of Cape Town, in South Africa. In her work, Weltman tries to uncover the fundamental laws governing our Universe using tools from particle physics. She has also been working in collaboration with experimentalists to find out how fast radio bursts can tell us more about the origin of the universe.
Weltman did her undergraduate studies at the University of Cape Town, her PhD at Columbia University, in New York, under the supervision of Brian Greene. As a graduate student, she co-authored a series of papers on Chameleon Gravity. She later went on to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, in the UK. She has been the director of the High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Astrophysics Theory (HEPCAT) group at the University of Cape Town since 2018.
