Marilena Loverde

Marilena Loverde is the Dr. Ann Nelson Endowed Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Washington in Seattle. She previously served as faculty at Stony Brook University's C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics. Her research focuses on cosmology, structure formation, and testing dark sector physics using CMB observations. She actively seeks PhD students and postdocs.

Education:

• Ph.D., Physics, Columbia University, 2009
• B.A., Mathematics and Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 2003
• Associate degree in Art and Math, Cabrillo Community College

Research Interests: She investigates cosmic inflation, cosmic neutrino background, halo biasing, and nonlinear gravitational evolution. Current priorities include detecting new particles via Stage-IV CMB experiments and studying cosmologies beyond cold dark matter-Λ models.

Awards: None explicitly listed in the provided text.

Advising/Grants: No specific grants or advising details provided. Open to mentoring new researchers via email inquiry.