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).\u00a0 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
Research Interests:\u00a0 Cosmology, Cosmological Distance Indicators, Type Ia Supernovae, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, The Hubble Constant.<\/p>\n