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Charles Alcock

calcock@cfa.harvard.edu

Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University

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

Charles Alcock is the former director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & 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...

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...

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...

Angus Beane

ITC Alum

Junior Fellow, Simons Society of Fellows, New York University

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...

Olga Borodina

olga.borodina@cfa.harvard.edu

Graduate Student

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

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 & galaxies and how they contributed to the Milky Way.

Vedant Chandra

vedant.chandra@cfa.harvard.edu

Graduate Student

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...