Aspiring Caribbean scientists are encouraged to pursue their goals by Alexandra Amon, a science communicator and physicist who is also an assistant professor at Princeton.
She posted on the site where she operates, “I am very proud to have started on the tiny islands of Trinidad and Tobago.”
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The T&T national is one of 126 recipients this year of the esteemed Sloan Research Fellowships, a $75,000 fellowship given out for two years to early-career researchers whose achievements, inventiveness, and inventiveness distinguish them as the leaders of tomorrow.
In the physics category, Amon was chosen as one of 24 awardees. Mathematics, Earth System Science, Economics, and Neuroscience are more categories.
Amon and her team highlight the groundbreaking Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time on their website, which will depict over 1 billion galaxies.
According to the Princeton University website, the Observatory, which is situated on a mountain in Chile, is almost finished and will provide breathtaking views of the universe. For ten years, Rubin will continuously scan the sky with the biggest camera ever constructed to produce an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of the cosmos.
She stated, “We use galaxies to map the large-scale structure and confront questions about the composition and evolution of our universe.”
According to Amon, their ultimate objective is to comprehend the characteristics of dark energy and dark matter.
Before attending Princeton, Amon worked for three years as a Kavli Fellow in Professor Wechsler’s lab at Stanford, where she focused on the analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Cosmology.
It is one of the most sought-after scholarships for young academics, and the 2025 fellows hailed from 51 universities in the US and Canada.
Several have gone on to become highly regarded scientists in their domains.