Position
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences; Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation

Email
quataert@princeton.edu

Office
127 Peyton

Website
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~quataert/


Bio/Description
I am a Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University. I am an astrophysics theorist who works on a wide range of problems, including stars and black holes, accretion theory, plasma astrophysics, and how galaxies form. My research utilizes both analytic calculations and numerical simulations.?I also enjoy teaching both undergraduate and graduate classes and giving non-technical talks to the public on topics such as black holes, neutron star mergers, and galaxy formation.
I received my undergraduate degree at MIT, my PhD from Harvard, and was a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study. I then joined the faculty at UC Berkeley where I was until moving to Princeton in 2020.