Amber D. Miller

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Amber Dawn Miller is an American experimental cosmologist. She is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Southern California and the dean of the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. She is an American Physical Society Fellow.

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l. Miller received her B.A. in physics and astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1995 and her PhD in physics from Princeton University in 2000. [1] [2] As a postdoctoral scholar, she completed a NASA Hubble Fellowship [3] at the University of Chicago.

Research and career

Miller has published nearly 200 articles and journal entries related to the field of early universe cosmology, [4] as well as a number of articles on atmospheric science. [5]  Her PhD thesis work was the first to provide evidence that the geometry of the universe is flat. [6]

In 2002, she was appointed to the faculty of Columbia University and served as the first dean of science for the University's faculty of arts and sciences from 2011–16. [2]

Awards and honors

Miller's awards include a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and a Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award. [7] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014 "for important contributions to observations of the cosmic microwave background and development of innovative instrumentation for millimeter-wave cosmology." [8]

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