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  [###  Munazza Alam

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   [### Charles Alcock 

 ](/people/charles-alcock) <calcock@cfa.harvard.edu>Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University

Former Director, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian (2004-2022)

 

 

 Charles Alcock is the former director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian, a position he held for 17 years until January 2022. Charles remains a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and a Senior Scientist at the Smithsonian... 

 

 

      ![Portrait of Charles Alcock](/sites/g/files/omnuum8321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-06/charles-alcock-20180322-2B.jpg?itok=Y5mPsRfp) 

 

 

 

   [### Vishnu Balakrishnan

 ](/people/vishnu-balakrishnan) <vishnu.balakrishnan@cfa.harvard.edu>ITC Post-Doc

 

 

 Vishnu Balakrishnan is a postdoctoral researcher in Liam Connor’s group, working in time-domain radio astronomy with a focus on pulsars, fast radio bursts (FRBs), and large-scale survey software. He joined the group in September 2025. He received his Ph.D... 

 

 

      ![Portrait of Vishnu Balakrishnan](/sites/g/files/omnuum8321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-02/ITC%20Vishnu%20Balakrishnan_0.jpg?itok=ipR-pTxE) 

 

 

 

   [### Evan Bauer

 ](/people/evan-bauer) <bauer39@llnl.gov>Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

 

 

 Evan Bauer studies stars and how they evolve. He is especially interested in the physics of white dwarf stars, subdwarf stars, binary evolution, and interactions between stars in binaries. He also works on computational methods for stellar astrophysics as... 

 

 

      ![Evan Bauer headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum8321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/itc/files/evan_bauer.jpg?itok=hSw6MjD8) 

 

 

 

   [### Angus Beane

 ](/people/angus-beane)ITC Alum

 

 

 Junior Fellow, Simons Society of Fellows, New York University 

 

 

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   [### Jake Bennett

 ](/people/jake-bennett) <jake.bennett@cfa.harvard.edu>Lars Hernquist Research Group Fellow

 

 

 Jake Bennett is part of the Simons Foundation’s “Learning the Universe” collaboration, and is based at the Institute for Theory and Computation at the CfA. Jake uses cosmological simulations to investigate how galaxies grow and evolve, with a particular... 

 

 

      ![A portrait of Jake Bennett](/sites/g/files/omnuum8321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-11/Harvard%20Astrophysics%20Jake%20Bennett_100225_004.JPG?h=a4dbc954&itok=bmo2GzIS) 

 

 

 

   [### Olga Borodina

 ](/people/olga-borodina) <olga.borodina@cfa.harvard.edu>Graduate Student

 

 

 Research interests: Galaxy evolution. I run hydrodynamical simulations to study AGN feedback. 

 

 

      ![A portrait of Olga Borodina](/sites/g/files/omnuum8321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-11/Harvard%20Astrophysics%20Olga%20Borodina_100225_002.JPG?h=74f09445&itok=L4SBpPX7) 

 

 

 

   [### Kaley Brauer

 ](/people/kaley-brauer) <kaley.brauer@cfa.harvard.edu>NSF Fellow

 

 

 Kaley develops and analyzes dwarf galaxy simulations in the early Universe to understand the first stars &amp; galaxies and how they contributed to the Milky Way. 

 

 

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   [### Vedant Chandra

 ](/people/vedant-chandra) <vedant.chandra@cfa.harvard.edu>Graduate Student

 

 

 

      ![verdant_chandra_headshot_2.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/itc/files/verdant_chandra_headshot_2.jpg?itok=eFFtWRQk) 

 

 

 

   [### Xingang Chen

 ](/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... 

 

 

      ![Xingang Chen](/sites/g/files/omnuum8321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/itc/files/xingang-chen-utd.jpg?itok=vG4cjGdd) 

 

 

 

   [### Shelley Cheng

 ](/people/shelley-cheng) <shelley.cheng@cfa.harvard.edu>Graduate Student

 

 

 

      ![shelley_cheng.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/itc/files/shelley_cheng_0.jpg?itok=HbhXuj4e) 

 

 

 

   [### Shelley Cheng

 ](/people/shelley-cheng-0) <shelley.cheng@cfa.harvard.edu>Graduate Student

 

 

 

      ![shelley_cheng.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/itc/files/shelley_cheng_1.jpg?itok=z738WFcm) 

 

 

 

  

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