Astronomical Data People

Lauren Anderson joined the foundation in 2016 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics. She currently uses computational data analysis to work on interesting problems in astronomy.

Megan Bedell joined the foundation in 2017 as a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics. Her research broadly covers the discovery of new exoplanets and the characterization of Sun-like stars throughout the galaxy, with a particular focus on the…

Daniel Foreman-Mackey joined the foundation in 2017 as an associate research scientist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics. His research focuses on developing novel data-analysis methods and applying them to astronomical survey datasets. Recently, he has been using a combination of data-driven…

David W. Hogg is an astrophysicist at New York University’s Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics and the group leader of CCA’s Astronomical Data group. His research has ranged from fundamental cosmological measurements to stellar dynamics to exoplanet searches and characterization.

Rodrigo Luger joined the Center for Computational Astrophysics in September, 2018. He is broadly interested in anything related to exoplanets and computational data analysis.

Melissa Ness joined the foundation in 2018 as an associate research scientist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics.

Sarah Pearson joined the foundation in 2018 as a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics.