#  Lars Hernquist 

Mallinckrodt Professor of Astrophysics 

 

 

 



   ![Portrait of Lars Hernquist](/sites/g/files/omnuum8321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2026-06/ITC%20HERNQUIST%20Lars.jpg?itok=ULMaS2x1) 

 



 

 location\_on Perkin Lab, P-235Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics60 Garden St., MS-51Cambridge, MA 02138 

 smartphone [ (617) 496-4180](<tel: (617) 496-4180>) 

 email <lhernquist@cfa.harvard.edu> 

 



 

*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 neutron stars and the interplay between thermal and magnetic processes in strongly magnetized neutron stars.

*Publications:* [ADS](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?sim_query=YES&aut_xct=NO&author=hernquist,%20l.__&nr_to_return=50&start_nr=1&query_type=PAPERS&select_nr=50&select_start=1&jou_pick=ALL&data_and=ALL&group_and=ALL&sort=SCORE&aut_syn=YES&aut_wt=1.0&aut_wgt=YES&db_key=AST&version=1&version=1&db_key=AST), [astro-ph](http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:%20hernquist/0/1/0/all/0/1)



 

 

 





 

 

- ## People Role
    
     [Senior ITC Members](/people-role/senior-itc-members)
- ## Research Area
    
     [Cosmology](/research-area/cosmology)