Meet Katie Mack, astrophysicist and author of The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), a mind-bending and lively look at five ways the universe could end.

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About the Author

Dr. Katie Mack is a theoretical astrophyisicist who studies a range of questions in cosmology, the study of the universe from beginning to end. She received her undergraduate degree at Caltech and PhD from Princeton before going on to postdoctoral fellowships at Cambridge University and Melbourne University. Katie currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Physics at North Carolina State University, where she is also a member of the Leadership in Public Science Cluster. Starting in June 2022, she will be the Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Throughout her career she has researched dark matter, the early universe, galaxy formation, black holes, cosmic strings, and the ultimate fate of the cosmos. Alongside her academic work, she is an active science communicator and has written for a number of popular publications such as Scientific American, Slate, Sky & Telescope, and Cosmos Magazine, where she is a columnist. You can find her on Twitter as @AstroKatie.

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