Alexandra Amon
Member since 2023
I am delighted to work with the UK Young Academy to think creatively and innovate new pathways to tackle the local and global challenges that we as a society face.
Bio
Alexandra Amon is a Senior Kavli Research Fellow in the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge. She is an astrophysicist whose research focuses on cosmology and understanding our dark Universe, mostly using a tool called ‘weak gravitational lensing’. At present, she co-coordinates a team within the Dark Energy Survey – a large international collaboration. Recently, she won the Caroline Herschel Prize.
After growing up in Trinidad and Tobago, Alexandra studied at the University of Edinburgh, and then took a research fellowship at Stanford University. Her doctorate thesis won the Royal Astronomical Society Michael Penston Thesis Prize. An avid science communicator, she has featured on platforms such as New Scientist, Al Jazeera, and PBS ‘Ancient Skies’.
