# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katherine-mack
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:11:27.730Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katherine-mack"
name: "Katherine Mack"
slug: "katherine-mack"
description: "Katherine J. Mack is an American theoretical cosmologist who holds the Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at the Perimeter Institute. Her academic research investigates dark matter, vacuum decay, and the Epoch of Reionization. Mack is also a popular science communicator who participates in social media and regularly writes for Scientific American, Slate, Sky & Telescope, Time, and Cosmos."
tagline: "Theoretical astrophysicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Katie_Mack-IMG_8876.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1981-05-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.715230666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 6150
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/AstroKatie"
    handle:    "AstroKatie"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/academicnomad/"
    handle:    "academicnomad"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
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    handle:    "astrokatie"
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  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
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    handle:    "@astrokatie"
    followers: 6150
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    title: "Katie Mack"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Mack_(astrophysicist)"
    title: "Katie Mack (astrophysicist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Mack_(astrof%C3%ADsica)"
    title: "Katie Mack (astrofísica)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Katie Mack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Katie Mack"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump