March 18, 2026
The University of Tokyo Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI)
Xinpeng Wang, a 1st Year Theoretical Physics PhD student at the University of Tokyo Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI), has been selected as one of the second cohort recipients of the Enrico Fermi Fellowships, it was announced by the fellowship.
The Enrico Fermi Fellowship was established in 2024, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, and managed by the Center for SpaceTime and the Quantum. The Fellowship is named after physicist Enrico Fermi, who excelled in both theoretical and experimental research. It supports graduate students who are similarly interested in fundamental scientific questions and eager to work on both theoretical and experimental aspects.
Through her own fellowship, Wang says she aims to "connect theoretical studies of the dark universe with ongoing and future observations to study the challenges to our current picture of the universe."
Her research focuses on exploring detectable signatures originating from the early universe, particularly in the contexts of inflation, dark matter, and gravitational wvaves. Wang earned her bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics from Tongji University, working on population analyses of primordial black holes as a possible explanation for a subset of the gravitational-wave events detected by LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA.
Related links
Xinpeng Wang's Enrico Fermi Fellowship profile
Enrico Fermi Fellowships
