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Professor John Joseph Carrasco is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University. He obtained his PhD from the University of California Los Angeles in 2010. His research interests encompass fundamental physics with a focus on prediction-oriented understanding of quantum field theories and perturbative quantum gravity. He addresses open phenomenological questions in precision cosmology and gravitational wave science, seeking deep physical insights. His work emphasizes the joy of developing and leveraging domain expertise in scattering amplitudes, relativity, particle physics, string theory, and cosmology. He has received multiple honors, including the ICBS Frontiers Science Award in 2024, the AT&T Research Fellowship from 2021 to 2023, and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship from 2020 to 2022, along with an ERC Starting Grant in 2014.
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