Dr. Sarah Pearson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator & Public Speaker

The Extragalactic Streams group

Starting December 2023 at the Niels Bohr Institute (U. Copenhagen). Funded by Villum Fonden (project VIL53081).

Sarah Pearson

group leader

In December 2023, Pearson will return to the Niels Bohr Institute (U. Copenhagen) after spending 10 years in the US, where she obtained her PhD degree in Astronomy from Columbia University in 2018, held a NASA Hubble Fellowship at New York University (2020-2023), and a Flatiron Research Fellowship at the Center for Computational Astrophysics (2018-2020). Pearson's research interests include galactic collisions, stellar streams, galactic bars, and dark matter. You can find a link to her publications here and details on her research interests here.

Postdocs

We are now hirering for a fall 2024 start date

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PhD students

We are now hirering for a fall 2024 start date

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Master's & Bachelor's students

Get in contact about potential projects at spearson (at) nyu.edu.