Daniel M. Scolnic

Scolnic

Associate Professor of Physics

Use observational tools to measure the expansion history of the universe.  Trying to answer big questions like 'what is dark energy?'.

Appointments and Affiliations

  • Associate Professor of Physics

Contact Information

  • Office Location: 120 Science Drive, Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708
  • Office Phone: +1 919 660 3201
  • Email Address: daniel.scolnic@duke.edu
  • Websites:

Education

  • Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 2013
  • B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007

Research Interests

Cosmology, Supernova.

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Defense Science Study Group (DSSG). Institute for Defense Analysis. 2023
  • Clarivate Most Highly Cited Scientists. Clarivate. 2023
  • Fred Kavli Plenary Lectureship. American Astronomical Society. 2023
  • Sloan Research Fellowship-Physics. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 2022
  • Department of Energy Early Career Award. Department of Energy. 2021
  • Packard Fellowship. The David and Lucille Packard Foundation. 2019

Courses Taught

  • PHYSICS 791: Special Readings
  • PHYSICS 556: Stellar Astrophysics
  • PHYSICS 495: Thesis Independent Study
  • PHYSICS 493: Research Independent Study
  • PHYSICS 142L9D: General Physics II (Discussion)
  • PHYSICS 134: Introduction to Astronomy

In the News

Representative Publications

  • Popovic, B; Scolnic, D; Vincenzi, M; Sullivan, M; Brout, D; Chen, R; Patel, U; Peterson, ER; Kessler, R; Kelsey, L; Sanchez, BO; Bailey, AC; Wiseman, P; Toy, M, Amalgame: cosmological constraints from the first combined photometric supernova sample, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol 529 no. 3 (2024), pp. 2100-2115 [10.1093/mnras/stae420] [abs].
  • Andreoni, I; Coughlin, MW; Criswell, AW; Bulla, M; Toivonen, A; Singer, LP; Palmese, A; Burns, E; Gezari, S; Kasliwal, MM; Kiendrebeogo, RW; Mahabal, A; Moriya, TJ; Rest, A; Scolnic, D; Simcoe, RA; Soon, J; Stein, R; Travouillon, T, Enabling kilonova science with Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, Astroparticle Physics, vol 155 (2024) [10.1016/j.astropartphys.2023.102904] [abs].
  • Riess, AG; Anand, GS; Yuan, W; Casertano, S; Dolphin, A; Macri, LM; Breuval, L; Scolnic, D; Perrin, M; Anderson, RI, JWST Observations Reject Unrecognized Crowding of Cepheid Photometry as an Explanation for the Hubble Tension at 8σ Confidence, Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol 962 no. 1 (2024) [10.3847/2041-8213/ad1ddd] [abs].
  • Riess, AG; Anand, GS; Yuan, W; Macri, LM; Casertano, S; Dolphin, A; Breuval, L; Scolnic, D; Perrin, M; Anderson, RI, JWST Observations Reject Unrecognized Crowding of Cepheid Photometry as
    an Explanation for the Hubble Tension at 8 sigma Confidence
    (2024) [abs].
  • Toy, M; Wiseman, P; Sullivan, M; Frohmaier, C; Graur, O; Palmese, A; Popovic, B; Davis, TM; Galbany, L; Kelsey, L; Lidman, C; Scolnic, D; Allam, S; Desai, S; Abbott, TMC; Aguena, M; Alves, O; Annis, J; Bacon, D; Bertin, E; Brooks, D; Burke, DL; Carnero Rosell, A; Carrasco Kind, M; Carretero, J; Castander, FJ; Conselice, C; da Costa, LN; Pereira, MES; De Vicente, J; Diehl, HT; Doel, P; Everett, S; Ferrero, I; Frieman, J; Gerdes, DW; Gruen, D; Gruendl, RA; Gutierrez, G; Hinton, SR; Hollowood, DL; Honscheid, K; James, DJ; Kuehn, K; Kuropatkin, N; Marshall, JL; Melchior, P; Mena-Fernández, J; Menanteau, F; Miquel, R; Pieres, A; Plazas Malagón, AA; Romer, AK; Sanchez, E; Scarpine, V; Sevilla-Noarbe, I; Smith, M; Soares-Santos, M; Suchyta, E; Tarle, G; To, C; Weaverdyck, N, Rates and properties of Type Ia supernovae in galaxy clusters within the dark energy survey, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol 526 no. 4 (2023), pp. 5292-5305 [10.1093/mnras/stad2982] [abs].