Lars Hernquist, Ph.D.
Mallinckrodt Professor of Astrophysics, Harvard UniversityLars Hernquist is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Astrophysics. His research interests include theoretical studies of dynamical processes in cosmology and galaxy formation/galaxy evolution. Numerical simulations of stellar dynamical and hydrodynamical systems. Investigations of the physics of compact objects, particularly neutron stars and the interplay between thermal and magnetic processes in strongly magnetized neutron stars.