Max Tegmark
MIT Professor of Physics
Max Tegmark began his extensive academic career by earning his Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley in 1994 before becoming a research associate at the Max-Planck-Institut in Munich. He subsequently returned to the United States as a Hubble Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Advancing his professorial career, he earned tenure at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003 before accepting a faculty position at MIT in 2004.
Throughout his distinguished career, Max has authored over 200 technical papers and appeared in dozens of science documentaries. His research has earned him prestigious recognition, including a Packard Fellowship, a Cottrell Scholar Award, and an NSF Career grant. In addition to being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society, his collaborative work on galaxy clustering shared first prize for Science magazine’s “Breakthrough of the Year” in 2003.
