Academic Positions

Curriculum Vitae

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Academic Qualifications & Positions

2022 – 2025: Chair, Department of Astronomy, Yale University.

2022 – present: Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor of Astronomy & Physics, Yale.

2021 – present: Editorial Board & Science Editor, Extra-galactic Astrophysics and Cosmology, The American Astronomical Society Journals.

2021 – present: External PI, Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

2019 – 2022: Member, National Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee (AAAC) to NASA, NSF and DoE. 2019: Distinguished Visiting Professor at the International Center for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India; Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Institute for Astronomy, Manoa, Hawaii.

2017 – 2022: Member, NASA LISA Science Team, NASA; Member, International Advisory Committee of the Higgs Center for Fundamental Physics, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2017 – present: Director, Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, Yale University.

2017 – present: Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Associate Member, Flatiron Institute, Center for Computational Astrophysics, New York, NY.

2017 – 2020: Chair, Division of Astrophysics, American Physical Society.

2014 – 2017; 2019: Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Astronomy, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

2015 – 2017: Chair, Yale College Science Council.

2013 – present: Primary Investigator of the International CATS Scientific Collaboration. 2012: Honorary Professorship (lifetime appointment), University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.

2012: Honorary Professorship (lifetime appointment), University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.

2011: Master of Science (S.M.) awarded by the Program in Science, Technology & Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

2011 – 2014: Chair, Womens Faculty Forum, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

2011 – 2012: Caroline Herschel Distinguished Visitor, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD.

2010 – 2011: Visiting Professor, Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Visiting Fellow, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO.

2009 – present: Sophie and Tycho Brahe Professorship, DARK Cosmology Center, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2009 – present: Professor, Departments of Astronomy & Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

2009 – 2010: Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY.

2008 – 2009: Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow and Bunting Fellow Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

2007 – 2010: Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Astronomy, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

2005 – 2008: Associate Professor of Astrophysics at Yale University, New Haven, CT.

2005 – present: Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Petters Research Institute, Belize; Associate, Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

2004 – 2005: Long-term visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.

2002 – 2003: Junior Faculty Leave from Yale as Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K.

2000 – 2005: Assistant Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Astronomy, Yale University, New Haven, CT and a joint appointment in the Department of Physics.

1998: Postdoctoral fellowship at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Toronto, Canada.

1997 – 2003: Title A Research Fellowship, Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K.

1994 – 1999: Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K. Thesis advisor: Professor Martin Rees.

1990 – 1994: Program in Science, Technology & Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

1986 – 1990: Bachelor of Science in Physics (Course VIIIA) & Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.