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Claudia de Rham
Claudia de Rham is a professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London, a 2020 Simons Investigator in Physics, a 2020 Blavatnik Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering and winner of the 2018 Adams Prize for contributions to Mathematics. In 2008, she was one of the final 42 candidates for the European Space Agency’s astronaut selection campaign, before a surprise diagnosis of latent TB derailed her chances. From there, she moved into academia, researching gravity, particle physics and cosmology, in pursuit of a more fundamental description of the nature of our universe. In 2011, she and her colleagues gained worldwide attention by publishing a theory of massive gravity that has the potential to solve some of cosmology’s biggest mysteries.
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