Sean Carroll

Sean Carroll has been a research associate at the California Institute of Technology since 2006. He completed his Ph.D. in Physics in 1993 at Harvard University. His dissertation was titled "Cosmological Consequences and Geometric Phenomena in Field Theory." He has served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Theoretical Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, as well as an assistant professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. His research has focused on various topics in Theoretical Physics, including cosmology, field theory, particle physics, and gravity. Currently, he is studying the nature of dark matter and dark energy; the connection between cosmology, quantum gravity, and statistical mechanics; and the question of whether the early universe underwent a period of inflation. Carroll is the author of the graduate-level textbook titled "Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity."