Joshua Benabou, Ph.D.

Joshua Benabou is a postdoctoral fellow at New York University’s Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Benjamin Safdi, and previously earned a diplôme d’Ingénieur and master’s in high energy physics from École Polytechnique. His research bridges quantum field theory, high-performance computing, and data-driven approaches to fundamental physics.

A central focus of Benabou’s work is uncovering the nature of dark matter, including searches for the axion — a hypothetical particle that could simultaneously constitute dark matter and resolve the longstanding strong CP problem in quantum chromodynamics — through astrophysical observations, laboratory experiments, and theoretical studies of its realization in string theory.