Lieke van Son, Ph.D.

Lieke van Son joined the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) as a Flatiron Research Fellow in the fall of 2023. She is jointly appointed as a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows. Van Son earned her Ph.D. at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, and a joint doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. Her work focuses on binary stars and massive stellar evolution theory with a focus on sources of gravitational waves. She combines population synthesis models and more detailed stellar evolution simulations to learn something about the elusive life of massive stars.