Bio
Priyamvada Natarajan is a theoretical astrophysicist and professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, where she chairs the Department of Astronomy. Her research uses gravitational lensing to study dark matter and explores how supermassive black holes form and grow. She is the author of Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos, a recipient of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics and a 2024 TIME100 honoree.