Morgan MacLeod
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
60 Garden Street, MS-51
Cambridge, MA 02138
Office B-230
Morgan MacLeod is a theoretical and computational astrophysicist interested in the interactive moments in stellar lifetimes. His research draws on a range of techniques to model the appearance of stellar mergers, collisions, explosions, and planet-swallowing episodes as astronomical transients. Morgan received a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2016, and a BA in Physics and Astronomy from Bowdoin College in 2010. Previously Morgan has been a fellow of the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, a NASA Einstein fellow, and a Clay Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
Research interests: Stars: stellar evolution, binary and multiple systems, interactions, mergers, collisions, star--planet interactions, common envelope phases, and the assembly of compact, gravitational-wave emitting binaries, with particular focus on the appearance of these events in the transient sky.