Natarajan appointed Fruton Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics

Priyamvada Natarajan, a theoretical astrophysicist who maps the unseen universe — invisible entities like dark matter, black holes, and dark energy — whose presence can only be indirectly inferred from observational data, has been appointed the inaugural Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics, effective immediately.

She is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the departments of Astronomy and Physics and is the current chair of the Department of Astronomy.