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General Information
| Full Name | Timothy Lucas Makinen |
| Languages | English, French, Finnish, Italian |
Education
- 2025
PhD
Imperial College London
- 2021
Master's
Sorbonne University & Institut d'Astrophysique, Paris
- 2020
B.A. Astrophysics
Princeton University, United States
- Minors: Applied & Computational Mathematics, Statistics & Machine Learning
- Royal College of Music Exchange Programme (2018-19)
Experience
- 2025 - present
Physics-AI Fellow
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- 2021 - 2024
PhD Candidate
Department of Physics, Imperial College London
- 2021-2022
Predoctoral Researcher
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
- 2021
Postgraduate Researcher
Scuola Internazionale di Studi Avanzati, Trieste Italy
- 2020-2021
Master's Internship
Institut d'Asrophysique de Paris
- 2020-2021
Data Scientist
Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics, University of Copenhagen
- 2019-2020
Student Researcher
Flatiron Institute & Princeton University
- 2020
Summer Researcher
DAWN Institute, University of Copenhagen
- 2018-2019
Student Researcher
Imperial College & Cambridge University
- 2018
Summer Research Intern
Institut de Génetique Moléculaire de Montpellier (CNRS)
- 2017
Student Researcher
Department of Astrophysics, Princeton University
Honors and Awards
- 2025
- Imperial College London Winton Captial Prize for best PhD thesis in Physics using computational methods
- 2023
- Imperial College Astrophysics Warner Postgraduate Prize
- 2021
- Imperial College London President's Scholarship
- 2020
- Sorbonne University Master's Scholarship
- Honor Graduate, Princeton University
- 2019
- Streicker International Fellowship
- APS Outstanding Undergraduate Presentation
- 2018
- Office of International Programs Fellowship