Austin Joyce is an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. He is also a Senior Member of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) and affiliated with the Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics. He received his BS in Physics from Boston College and his PhD in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. Following his doctorate, he held a joint KICP and Robert R. McCormick Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Chicago, followed by a postdoctoral position at Columbia University's Center for Theoretical Physics, before joining the UChicago faculty. As a theoretical cosmologist, his research bridges high-energy physics, gravity, and cosmology, focusing on the nature of dark energy, dark matter, early-universe evolution, and using cosmological observations to probe fundamental physics. He applies quantum field theory techniques to cosmological problems, explores symmetries as organising principles, and investigates consistent effective field theories. In 2024, he received a prestigious U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award.