Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD, is a theoretical cosmologist and particle physicist. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and astronomy at Harvard College and a PhD at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Waterloo. She was the 54th Black American woman in history to earned a PhD in physics and one of only 20 to earn tenure in physics. Prescod-Weinstein is one of the world’s pre-eminent researchers of dark matter. Her research helped popularize the axion, a hypothetical particle, as a possible explanation for dark matter. She is lead axion wrangler for the NASA STROBE-X Probe Concept Study. Today Prescod-Weinstein is an Associate Professor of Physics, and Core Faculty Member in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of New Hampshire.
