CCA Staff

Kelle Cruz is an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Hunter College and a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Her research interests include the study of very low mass stars and brown dwarfs.

She is an Associate Professor in the Astronomy Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and on sabbatical leave at the Center for Computational Astrophysics in 2019.

Saurabh W. Jha is on sabbatical from Rutgers University as a visiting scholar at the CCA in 2019. His main research focus is the observational study of white dwarf supernovae.

Kathryn Johnston is a professor at Columbia University, currently on sabbatical at the Center for Computational Astrophysics. She will be taking up a joint appointment between Columbia and CCA to allow her to lead a new Dynamics Group in Fall 2019.

Maryam Modjaz is an Associate Professor of Physics at NYU and on sabbatical at the Center for Computational Astrophysics for 2018-2019. Her research addresses fore front problems in stellar death astrophysics and time-domain astronomy, which include Gamma-Ray Bursts and different kinds of…

Jeremiah P. Ostriker has been an influential researcher in one of the most exciting areas of modern science, theoretical astrophysics, with current primary work in the area of cosmology, particularly the aspects that can be approached best by large scale numerical calculations.

Page is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He received his B.A. from Bowdoin College in 1978 and, following a five-year break, his Ph.D. from MIT in 1989.

Rosalba Perna is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University, and on sabbatical at CCA in Spring 2019.

Neelima Sehgal is an Associate Professor in Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University. She is on sabbatical at the Center for Computational Astrophysics from Fall 2018 to Fall 2019.