People

Peter Galison

Director, Black Hole Initiative
Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Department of the History of Science, Department of Physics
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Department of History of Science
Department of Physics
Containment (2015), a film with Robb Moss
p: 617-496-8952

Sheperd Doeleman

Co-Director, Black Hole Initiative
Founding Director, Event Horizon Telescope
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Harvard University
Dept. of Astronomy, "Imaging Black Holes with The Event Horizon Telescope"
Department of Astronomy
p: 617-496-8952

Netta Engelhardt

Assistant Professor, MIT
Netta Engelhardt’s research works towards developing an understanding of gravity on scales where quantum phenomena become important: inside black holes and... Read more about Netta Engelhardt
Personal website
engeln@mit.edu

Abraham (Avi) Loeb

Founding Director (and current Senior Faculty) of the Black Hole Initiative
Director, Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC), and Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University
Former Chair, Department of Astronomy (2011-2020)
Research Interests:
Professor Loeb has published more than 800 papers and 8 books on a broad range of research areas in theoretical...
Read more about Abraham (Avi) Loeb
Avi Loeb's Website
Avi Loeb's Publications (astro-ph)
Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden Street, MS-51
Cambridge, MA, 02138
aloeb@cfa.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-6808

Ramesh Narayan

Senior Faculty, Black Hole Initiative
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard University
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Center for Astrophysics
Astronomy Department
p: 617-496-9393

Priyamvada Natarajan

Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Physics, Yale University
Director, Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, Yale University
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Personal webpage
Yale Department of Astronomy webpage
Franke Program in Science and the Humanities webpage
priyamvada.natarajan@yale.edu

Andrew Strominger

Senior Faculty, Black Hole Initiative
Gwill E. York Professor of Physics
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Department of Physics
p: 617-496-8952

Shing-Tung Yau

Senior Faculty, Black Hole Initiative
William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics
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Department of Mathematics

Honorary Affiliate

Stephen Hawking (In Memoriam)

Former Honorary Affiliate
Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge

Official Website

BHI Fellows

Koushik Chatterjee

Fellow, Black Hole Initiative

Jordan Cotler

Fellow, Black Hole Initiative

Jamee Elder

Fellow, Black Hole Initiative

Alfredo Guevara Gonzalez

Fellow, Black Hole Initiative

Martin Lesourd

Fellow, Black Hole Initiative

Jue Liu

Fellow, Black Hole Initiative

Fabio Pacucci

Fellow, Black Hole Initiative

Clay Fellow, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Monica Pate

Fellow, Black Hole Initiative

Achilleas Porfyriadis

Fellow, Black Hole Initiative

Angelo Ricarte

Fellow, Black Hole Initiative

Freek Roelofs

Fellow, Black Hole Initiative

Paul Tiede

Fellow, Black Hole Initiative

Max Zimet

Fellow, Black Hole Initiative

Affiliates

Kazunori Akiyama

Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative

NRAO Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Haystack Observatory

Jacob Barandes

Lecturer and Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Physics, Harvard University

Edo Berger

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative

Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University

Lindy Blackburn

SAO Radio Astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Jeremy Butterfield

Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, UK

Fellow of the British Academy

Erik Curiel

BHI Visiting Scholar

Assistant Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

Juliusz Doboszewski

Postdoctoral Fellow, Lichtenberg Group for History and Philosophy of Physics, University of Bonn.

Jonathan E. Grindlay

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative

Robert Treat Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, Harvard University

Edward J. Hall

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative

Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy

Department Chair, Department of Philosophy

Michael Johnson

Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative

SAO Astrophysicist, Institute for Theory and Computation

David Kaiser

Professor of Physics, MIT

Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science

Associate Dean for Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing

Daniel Kennefick

Professor, University of Arkansas

Peter Koellner

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative

Professor, Department of Philosophy

James M. Moran

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative

Donald H. Menzel Professor of Astrophysics Emeritus, Department of Astronomy

Senior scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Feryal Ozel

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative

Professor of Astronomy and Physics, University of Arizona

Malcolm Perry

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative

Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge

Dominic Pesce

SAO Astrophysicist

PhD University of Virginia

Carina Prunkl

PhD in philosophy from University of Oxford

Dimitrios Psaltis

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative

Professor of Astronomy and Physics, University of Arizona

Andrea Puhm

Visiting Scholar, Black Hole Initiative

Lisa Randall

Faculty Affiliate, Harvard University

Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science

Mark Reid

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative

Senior Radio Astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Laura Reutsche

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative

Professor, University of Michigan

Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh

Visiting Scholar, Black Hole Initiative

Matthew Stanley

Professor, New York University

Cumrun Vafa

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative

Donner Professor of Science, Department of Physics

Jonathan Weintroub

Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative

Electrical Engineer and Scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Xi Yin

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative

Professor of Physics, Department of Physics

Graduate Students

Dominic Chang

Graduate Student

Dominic Chang is a graduate student in the physics department at Harvard University. He is a collaborator with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) which...

Hyerin Cho

Graduate Student

Hyerin Cho is a Ph.D. student at Harvard Astronomy and she is originally from Korea. Her research interest lies in high-energy astrophysics, which spans... Read more about Hyerin Cho

hyerin.cho@cfa.harvard.edu

Brandon Curd

Graduate Student

brandon.curd@cfa.harvard.edu

Delilah Gates

Graduate Student

Delilah Gates is a graduate student in the Physics Department at Harvard University. Before joining Harvard, she earned two Bachelors of Science,...

Elizabeth "Mina" Himwich

Graduate Student

Elizabeth "Mina" Himwich is a graduate student in the Physics Department at Harvard University. Her doctoral advisor is Andy Strominger. She is also...

himwich@g.harvard.edu

Betty Hu

Graduate Student

Betty is a graduate student in the Physics Department at Harvard University. Her advisor is Prof. Loeb. She studies black-hole-related astrophysical...

Tiffany Nichols

Doctoral Candidate: Harvard University, History of Science

Tiffany Nichols is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, a Graduate Student Affiliate at the Black Hole...

Daniel Palumbo

PhD student: Harvard University, BHI

Daniel Palumbo is a graduate student in the Harvard Astronomy department. He has been working with the Event Horizon Telescope since his undergraduate...

Kai Xu

Graduate Student

Kai Xu a graduate student in the Math Department at Harvard University. He is advised by Professor Shing-Tung Yau. He is generally interested in the...

Staff & Administration

Nicole Grenier

BHI Administrator

nicole.grenier@cfa.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-8956

BHI Alumni

Many people contributed to the BHI endeavor: check out the BHI Alumni page for a complete list