Priya Natarajan
Astrophysicist in TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People
"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 in the TIME 100 list of most influential people in the world in 2024 for her path breaking contributions to Astrophysics.
“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