Welcome
Sarah Pearson is an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, where she runs the Extragalactic Streams Group, focused on galactic dynamics and dark matter. Pearson's two passions are astrophysics research and communicating astrophysics. She has extensive experience giving lectures to both scientific peers and to non-scientific audiences. Follow these links for more details on her Publications (ADS), CV (pdf), and Research.News:
(2025) Two postdoc and two PhD offers have been made, and the waitlists have been contacted. We might conduct more interviews for the PhD candidates if any of the PhD offers decline.
(2025) Find our new paper, led by C. Fielder, which reveals a rich accretion event surrounding an LMC dwarf galaxy analog, here arXiv: 2501.04089.
(2024) I'm excited to announce that I have been accepted as a new member of the Danish Young Academy.
(2024) I received an ERC starting grant! I'm very excited to expand the Extragalactic Streams Group at U. Copenhagen in the years to come!