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Meet the People at the BHI

Kazunori Akiyama

NRAO Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow
MIT Haystack Observatory
Astronomy

Malcolm Perry

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative; Professor of Physics
University of Cambridge
Mathematics, Physics

Shing-Tung Yau

Professor
Harvard University
Mathematics

Jonathan Weintroub

Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative; Electrical Engineer and Scientist
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Astronomy

Cumrun Vafa

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative; Donner Professor of Science, Department of Physics
Physics

Matthew Stanley

Professor
New York University
Astronomy, Physics

Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh

Visiting Scholar, Black Hole Initiative
Astronomy

Laura Reutsche

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative; Professor
University of Michigan
Philosophy

Mark Reid

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative; Senior Radio Astronomer
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Astronomy

Lisa Randall

Faculty Affiliate; Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science
Harvard University
Physics

Andrea Puhm

Visiting Scholar, Black Hole Initiative
Physics

Dimitrios Psaltis

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative; Professor of Astronomy and Physics
University of Arizona
Astronomy

Carina Prunkl

University of Oxford
Philosophy, Physics

Dominic Pesce

SAO Astrophysicist
University of Virginia
Astronomy

Feryal Ozel

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative; Professor of Astronomy and Physics
University of Arizona
Astronomy

Jacob Barandes

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

James Moran

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative; Donald H. Menzel Professor of Astrophysics Emeritus, Department of Astronomy; Senior scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Astronomy

Peter Koellner

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative; Professor, Department of Philosophy
Philosophy

Daniel Kennefick

Professor
University of Arkansas
Philosophy, Physics

David Kaiser

Professor of Physics; Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science; Associate Dean for Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing
MIT
Astronomy, Philosophy, Physics

Michael Johnson

Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative SAO Astrophysicist
Institute for Theory and Computation
Astronomy

Edward Hall

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative; Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy; Department Chair, Department of Philosophy
Philosophy

Jonathan Grindlay

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative; Robert Treat Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy
Harvard University
Astronomy

Juliusz Doboszewski

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

Erik Curiel

BHI Visiting Scholar; Assistant Professor
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Philosophy, Physics

Jeremy Butterfield

Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, UK
Fellow of the British Academy
Philosophy, Physics

Lindy Blackburn

SAO Radio Astronomer
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Astronomy

Edo Berger

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative; Professor of Astronomy
Harvard University
Astronomy

Xi Yin

Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative; Professor of Physics, Department of Physics
Physics

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 Physics

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