Dillon Brout, PhD

Dillon Brout, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Astronomy and Physics Departments in the College of Arts & Sciences, and a Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Affiliate (2024).  Previously, Brout was a NASA Einstein Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian. His research group ties together cosmological distance and velocity measurements of the universe with the fundamental physical properties such as dark energy, dark matter, ordinary matter, and Einstein’s general relativity. He is currently leading several major cosmological experiments (SH0ES, Pantheon+, DES, DESI, and DECAT). These extremely large datasets cataloging the universe employ state of the art machine learning, statistical, data processing, and modeling techniques on a regular basis.

Research Interests:   Cosmology, Cosmological Distance Indicators, Type Ia Supernovae, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, The Hubble Constant.

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BU Cosmology Group is an interdisciplinary cosmology group at Boston University with members from departments of Astronomy, Physics, and Data Sciences

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