People

Xingang Chen

xingang.chen@cfa.harvard.edu

Senior Lecturer in Astronomy

Dr. Chen received his PhD from Columbia University in 2003 and held postdoc positions at the University of Florida, Cornell University, and MIT. From 2009 to 2013, he was a Stephen Hawking Advanced Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Chen was an...

Liam Connor

liam.connor@cfa.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Astronomy

Research interests: The origin of Fast Radio Bursts and their application to cosmology; the intersection of AI and astrophysics, in particular computer vision methods for astronomical imaging and ill-posed 3D reconstruction. To advance these subjects, I...

Charlie Conroy

cconroy@cfa.harvard.edu

Professor of Astronomy

Director, Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC)

Research Interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, connection between galaxies and dark matter halos, stellar population modeling, stellar evolution.

Rosanne Di Stefano

rdistefano@cfa.harvard.edu

Lecturer in Astronomy

SAO Senior Astrophysicist

Daniel Eisenstein

deisenstein@cfa.harvard.edu

Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Astronomy

Research Interests: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy with a mix of theoretical and observational methods; the development of the baryon acoustic oscillation method to measure the cosmic distance scale and study dark energy. Professor Eisenstein...

Douglas Finkbeiner

dfinkbeiner@cfa.harvard.edu

Professor of Astronomy and of Physics

Professor Finkbeiner was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1971. He graduated from Pioneer High School in 1989, and enrolled in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. His Freshman year he helped build the legendary Sunrunner and was active...

Alyssa Goodman

agoodman@cfa.harvard.edu

Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy

Alyssa Goodman is the Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard University , and a Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution. Goodman's research and teaching interests span astronomy, data visualization, prediction, and...

Lars Hernquist

lhernquist@cfa.harvard.edu

Mallinckrodt Professor of Astrophysics

Research Interests: Theoretical studies of dynamical processes in cosmology and galaxy formation/galaxy evolution. Numerical simulations of stellar dynamical and hydrodynamical systems. Investigations of the physics of compact objects, particularly...

Matthew Holman

mholman@cfa.harvard.edu

SAO Astrophysicist

Lecturer in Astronomy

Research Studies of the long-term dynamics of our solar system and extrasolar planetary systems. Observational surveys for Kuiper belt objects, Centaurs, and outer planet satellites using Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), Cerro Tololo Inter-American...

John Asher Johnson

jjohnson@cfa.harvard.edu

Professor of Astronomy

Research Interests: The detection and characterization of exoplanets. Received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Astronomy from UC Berkeley, and his B.S. in physics from the University of Missouri-Rolla (now known as the Missouri University of Science and Technology)...

Lisa Kewley

lisa.kewley@cfa.harvard.edu

Director, Center for Astrophysics

Lisa Kewley is Director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. She is Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, and Professor of Astrophysics at the Harvard Department of Astronomy...

Avi Loeb

aloeb@cfa.harvard.edu

Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science

Former Director, Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC), (2007-2026)

Former Chair, Department of Astronomy, (2011-2020)

Avi Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He is the Former Chair (2011-2020) of the Department of Astronomy; Founding Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative; and a Former Director of the Institute for Theory and...

Morgan MacLeod

morgan.macleod@cfa.harvard.edu

Lecturer in Astronomy

Morgan MacLeod is a Lecturer in Astronomy whose research focuses on stellar encounters in binary systems and their imprints on the transient night sky. Morgan uses computational and simulation methods to trace close encounters of stars and compact objects...

Ramesh Narayan

rnarayan@cfa.harvard.edu

Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences

Research Interests: Gravitational lensing; accretion disks; black holes; gamma-ray bursts. Publications: astro-ph , ADS Additional Contact: Fax: (617) 495-7093

Karin Öberg

koberg@cfa.harvard.edu

Professor of Astronomy

Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences

Senior Vice Provost for Faculty

The Öberg Astrochemistry Lab pursues laboratory ice experiments and astronomical observations that address how astrochemically important molecules form, and how they may evolve into larger molecules associated with the origins of life. An important aspect...

Fabio Pacucci

fabio.pacucci@cfa.harvard.edu

Senior ITC Member

Staff Astrophysicist, the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Research Interests: Theoretical and observational studies of black holes, including supermassive black holes, quasars, black hole seeds, intermediate-mass black holes, and wandering black holes. I am also involved in the development of next-generation...

Christopher Stubbs

stubbs@physics.harvard.edu

Dean of Science

Samuel C. Moncher Professor of Physics and of Astronomy

Research Interests: Foundations of gravitational physics, searches for dark matter, and observational cosmology. Christopher Stubbs is an experimental physicist working at the interface between particle physics, cosmology and gravitation. His interests...

Ashley Villar

ashleyvillar@cfa.harvard.edu

Faculty

Research Interests: Theoretical and observational studies of extragalactic transients, including core-collapse supernovae and kilonovae. Development of statistical and deep learning methodologies for wide-field surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin...

Catherine Zucker

Lecturer / SAO Astrophysicist

I am currently an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Formerly, I was a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Hubble Fellow working in the ISM* group at the Space Telescope Science Institute. I received my PhD from Harvard...