# Morgan MacLeod Lecturer in Astronomy ![Morgan Macleod headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/astronomy/files/macleod_morgan_ps_crop_0.jpg?itok=6ybWF97R) email laptop\_windows [Professional Website](https://morganmacleod.net/) laptop\_windows [Students](https://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/filter_by/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.