David Kirkby

David Kirkby is a cosmologist and professor at the department of physics and astronomy at University of California, Irvine (UCI).

Early life and education Kirkby grew up in England and Canada. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Toronto in 1989. He moved to the United States to attend the California Institute of Technology and earned his PhD in particle physics in 1995.

Career Kirkby had a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. He also holds a joint appointment at the department of electrical engineering and computer science at UCI.