A. Makai Baker

Physics PhD Student @ UC Berkeley, Chancellor’s Fellow

I’m Makai Baker, a first-year physics PhD student at UC Berkeley and Chancellor’s Fellow. I am broadly interested in theoretical cosmology and physics beyond the standard model. Before moving to the Bay, I studied physics and math at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. There, I worked with Eric Thrane and Paul Lasky on aspects of gravitational wave data analysis, focusing on a class of techniques known as reduced order modelling.

I grew up in the outer east of Melbourne and wanted to make physics a career for about as long as I can remember. In my spare time I like backpacking, birdwatching, cooking (eating), and photography!