Sofie Marie Koksbang is an assistant professor at CP3-origins, the section for fundamental physics at the University of Southern Denmark. She did her PhD at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Aarhus University followed by a postdoc at Helsinki University and Helsinki Institute of Physics. She then joined CP3-Origins the Summer of 2020 as a postdoc and after receiving a Villum Young Investigator grant last year, she transitioned to assistant professor and is now leading her own research group.
Sofie’s research is focused on general relativity and cosmology. Her work is theoretical, and she spends much of her research time writing computer programs that can be used to simulate models of the Universe and make mock observations in these. Although much of her work is numerical, working out the elaborate sets of equations based on general relativity that her computer programs later solve also takes up much of her research time. Sofie’s overall research goal is to develop observational relations for identifying how structures – from tiny dark matter particles to huge galaxy clusters – impact on the dynamics of the universe and our cosmological observations and thereby affects our understanding of dark matter and dark energy which are substances of unknown physical origin estimated to make up 95 % of the content of the Universe.
The prize committee will select a winner who will be announced at an award ceremony at the KIF Annual Meeting on June 4th, 2024 taking place at Aud. A, Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen.
The winner will be notified in writing in advance and invited to give a talk following the ceremony.
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