Devin G. Walker

Devin George Edward Walker is an American theoretical particle physicist, best known for his work on dark matter.^[1]

Devin George Edward Walker
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University Hampton University
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical Physics Particle Physics
Institutions	Dartmouth Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Stanford University University of Washington
Doctoral advisor	Nima Arkani-Hamed Howard Georgi

Education

Devin Walker received his bachelor's degree in physics from Hampton University, where he studied with physics professor Warren Buck.^[2][3] He studied dark matter as a doctoral student at Harvard University under Nima Arkani-Hamed, culminating in the thesis "Theories on the Origin of Mass and Dark Matter".^[3] Walker became the first American-born and American-educated Black physicist to earn a doctorate from the Harvard Physics Department in 2005.^[4]

Career

Walker was awarded the prestigious President's Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley, during which he worked on a framework to detect electroweak symmetry breaking from generic Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data.^[3] He went on to another postdoctoral appointment at Stanford, and a junior professorship at the University of Washington.^[5]

Walker is currently a research professor at the Dartmouth Department of Physics and Astronomy.^[5]

Awards

• 2020 - Moore Prize from the American Physical Society^[6]
• 2011 - Ford Foundation Fellowship^[7]
• 2010 - LHC Theory Initiative Fellowship^[8]