CCA Staff

Philip Chang received his BA from Harvard in 1998 and a PhD in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005 under the direction of Professor Lars Bildsten.

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.