Camille Avestruz, Ph.D.

Dr. Camille Avestruz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Michigan. She received her B.A. in Physics, Mathematics, and Dance from Barnard College in 2009 and her Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University in 2015. After receiving her Ph.D., she held a joint Enrico Fermi/KICP Postdoctoral Fellowship and Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholarship at the University of Chicago, then moved to the University of Michigan as an LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow in 2019. She then joined the faculty in 2021.

Dr. Avestruz uses simulations to make robust predictions of and to interpret observations of galaxies and galaxy clusters. Other aspects of her work prepare for the next decade of observations, which will produce unprecedented volumes of data. She has taught and developed software and computation workshops for a variety of audiences, is passionate about mentorship, and seeks ways to make STEM more accessible to those who have been historically excluded from the sciences and the academy.