Flatiron Institute Staff

Suvodip Mukherjee is a cosmologist, interested to study fundamental physics and astrophysical phenomena using Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), large scale structure and gravitational waves as observational probes.

Yurina Nakazato joined the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) as a Flatiron Research Fellow in October 2025.

Sophie Newman joined the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) as a Research Analyst through the CCA Pre-Doctoral Program in September 2023.

Oge Okoronkwo is a theoretical astrophysicist and Pre-doctoral Research Fellow at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA).

Michael Palumbo joined the Center for Computational Astrophysics as a Flatiron Research Fellow in August 2024.

Viraj Pandya was a Summer Research Associate and CCA Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Flatiron Institute under the supervision of Dr. Rachel Somerville. He earned his PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics from UC Santa Cruz.

Sarah Pearson is a Danish astrophysicist and science communicator. Pearson obtained her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2018 and, until recently, she was a research fellow at the Simons Foundation’s Center for Computational Astrophysics.