Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an associate professor of physics and astronomy and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is a columnist for New Scientist and Physics World. She conducts award-winning theoretical physics research on dark matter, the early universe and neutron stars, while also researching Black feminist science studies. Her first book, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime and Dreams Deferred, won the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in science and technology, the 2022 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science and a 2022 Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland. Born in Los Angeles she has roots spanning from Christ Church, Barbados to Kilburn, London.

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