Priyamvada “Priya” Natarajan is a theoretical astrophysicist and professor in the departments of astronomy and physics at Yale University. She is the director of the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities.
She is noted for her work in mapping dark matter and dark energy, particularly in gravitational lensing and in models describing the assembly and accretion histories of supermassive black holes. She authored the book Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos. She has been featured on shows such as Black Hole Apocalypse on PBS, showcasing her work and background.
She was one of the signatories of Statement on AI Risk, a 2023 open letter on AI risk.
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