Priyamvada Natarajan
1985
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: India
educated at: University of Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Trinity College, Delhi Public School
occupation: astronomer, astrophysicist
award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
official website: www.astro.yale.edu/priya
Priyamvada (Priya) Natarajan is a professor in the departments of astronomy and physics at Yale University. She is noted for her work in mapping dark matter and dark energy, particularly with her work in gravitational lensing, and in models describing the assembly and accretion histories of supermassive black holes. She authored the book Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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