"I was always attracted by the cosmos— the deep, dark mysteries it held have always seduced me."
An up and coming physicist and science communicator, Priyamvada Natarajan is a Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of Yale. She is the author of the pioneering work Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos. She was also the first woman in astrophysics to be elected as a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge.
Natarajan is widely regarded for her work on the cutting-edge of physics, like mapping dark matter, dark energy, and particularly her work in gravitational lensing.
"She has pioneered the mapping and modeling of the universe’s invisible contents." Quanta Magazine