Lieke van Son, Ph.D.

Lieke van Son joined the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) as a Flatiron Research Fellow in the fall of 2023. She is jointly appointed as a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows. Lieke earned her Ph.D. at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, and obtained a joint doctorate at the University of Amsterdam.

Her work focuses on binary stars and massive stellar evolution theory, with a focus on gravitational-wave progenitors.
She combines population synthesis models and more detailed stellar evolution simulations to learn something about the elusive life of massive stars.