Meet Priyamvada Natarajan, Indian Yale professor on TIME's 2024 list of 100 most influential people
Priyamvada Natarajan, a theoretical astrophysicist at Yale University, was named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in 2024.
Theoretical astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan was featured in Time Magazine’s 2024 list of 100 most influential people on Wednesday, April 17. The list, which is published annually, includes global leaders, titans of industry, athletes, media stars, and other pioneers across various creative fields. Priyamvada Natarajan, an Indian Yale professor, was highlighted in the TIME article written by American astrophysicist Shep Doeleman.
Doeleman praised Natarajan, stating, “Priya has a knack for pursuing the most creative research, and as a fellow astronomer, I am always inspired by her work. Her latest result takes us one step closer to understanding our cosmic beginnings.” Natarajan is an associate professor in the astronomy and physics departments at Yale University, focusing on cosmology with an emphasis on dark matter. She was awarded the Emeline Conland Bigelow Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University in 2008. According to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Natarajan’s research interests cover several areas in contemporary astrophysics, including gravitational lensing studies of clusters and galaxies, and the formation and growth of the first black holes in the universe.
A key focus of her work has been the detailed mapping of the spatial distribution of dark matter in cosmic structures. Natarajan completed her undergraduate degree and graduate work in the history and philosophy of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She obtained her PhD in theoretical astrophysics from the University of Cambridge (England) and was later elected to a junior research fellowship under Title A at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 2006–2007, she was also a fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale.
Among her many honours, Natarajan is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is also the recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe fellowships. At Yale, where she has been a faculty member since 2000, Natarajan serves as director of the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, which promotes communication, mutual understanding, collaborative research, and teaching among diverse scientific and humanistic disciplines. Following the announcement of the recent honour, Natarajan expressed her joy on X, stating, “I'm honoured, delighted, and grateful to be a part of this incredible group.”
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