Priyamvada Natarajan is a professor in the departments of astronomy and physics at Yale University and the Sophie and Tycho Brahe Professorship of the Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. A theoretical astrophysicist, she researches gravitational lensing and black holes. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society, Royal Astronomical Society, and Explorers Club and serves on the advisory board of the “NOVA” program “ScienceNow.” In addition to publishing in scientific journals Science and Nature, she has written for Hindustan Times, The Huffington Post, and Discover Magazine and been featured in Science News, New Scientist, Sky and Telescope, and The New York Review of Books.
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