People Demo
Juliana Garcia-Mejia
juliana.garcia-mejia@cfa.harvard.eduSAO Astrophysicist
Harvard Lecturer in Astronomy
Juliana received her Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from Harvard University in 2023 and returned to the Center for Astrophysics in 2026 after fellowships at MIT, where she was a 51 Pegasi b Fellow and a Pappalardo Fellow. She is an instrumentalist...
Adam Distler
adam.distler@cfa.harvard.eduGraduate Student
Research Interests: Exoplanet Detection and Characterization, Dynamics
Alexander Johnson
alexander.johnson@cfa.harvard.eduGraduate Student, Physics
Research Interests: cosmology, computational physics, HEP
Alexandra McKinnon
alexandramckinnon@g.harvard.eduGraduate Student, Chemistry
Research interests: Astrochemistry
Allyson Bieryla
abieryla@cfa.harvard.eduManager of the Astronomy Lab and Clay Telescope
Assistant DUS in Astronomy
Alyssa A Goodman
agoodman@cfa.harvard.eduRobert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy
Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution
Director of Graduate Studies
Research Interests: Goodman's work spans astrophysics, science education, data science, data visualization, and prediction. Her astrophysical research is aimed at understanding how interstellar gas arranges itself into new stars and on new techniques for...
Ana Sofia Uzsoy
ana_sofia.uzsoy@cfa.harvard.eduGraduate Student
Research Interests: astrostatistics, machine learning
Andrew Szentgyorgyi
saint@cfa.harvard.eduSAO Astrophysicist
Lecturer in Astronomy
Szentgyorgyi has worked in a number of astrophysical areas including neutrino astronomy, very high energy gamma astronomy and X-ray astronomy. For the last two decades he has focused on optical high dispersion stellar spectroscopy with a focus on...
Andrew Vanderburg
avanderburg@cfa.harvard.eduAssociate Professor of Astronomy
Director of Undergraduate Studies
My research focuses on studying exoplanets, or planets which orbit stars other than the Sun. I am interested in developing cutting-edge techniques and methods to discover new planets outside of our solar system, and studying the planets we find to learn...
Andy Nilipour
Graduate Student
Research Interests: cosmology, radio interferometry, machine learning, statistics
Anya Phillips
Graduate Student
I use N-body simulations to study the detailed dynamics of tidally-disrupted globular clusters (stellar streams).
Ashley Villar
Assistant Professor of Astronomy
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...
Avi Loeb
aloeb@cfa.harvard.eduFrank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, L'Express and more). He received a PhD in...
Bao ("Tintin") Nguyen
tintin.nguyen@cfa.harvard.eduGraduate Student
Tintin is broadly interested in astrophysical black holes of all sizes and scales over cosmic time, across the electromagnetic and gravitational wave spectra. He is a member of the Event Horizon Telescope and the Black Hole Explorer collaboration. He...
Catherine Petretti
catherine.petretti@cfa.harvard.eduGraduate Student
Research interests: Cosmic inflation, early universe cosmology, theory
