Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti is the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Alabama Huntsville.  She is the Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professor at UCSD, and was recently the Vera Rubin Visiting Professor at UCSC.  She was a Scialog Fellow and IBM Einstein Fellow at IAS.  She has worked broadly in astronomy, and has led the development of techniques and observing campaigns to directly measure the small accelerations of stars that live within the gravitational potential of the Milky Way, which provide the most direct probe of the mass distribution in the Galaxy.