"The geometry, the content, and the fate of the universe are all intricately linked."
Priyamvada Natarajan is an award-winning theoretical astrophysicist known for her work in mapping dark matter and dark energy and gravitational lensing. She is an an astronomy and physics professor at Yale University, and the author of the bestseller Mapping the Heavens – The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos.
Natarajan was included on the TIME100 list of most influential people in the world in 2024 and the 2025 recipient of the Dannie Heineman Prize in Astrophysics awarded by the American Astronomical Society and the American Institute of Physics
“A strikingly lucid account of the expansion, not just of the universe, but of the way we have tried to understand it." — New York Times
