Completing my PhD at the University of Chicago feels like the perfect culmination of that childhood dream. Growing up here, I always dreamed of doing research and becoming a scientist like my mom and the other professors I admired. I’m lucky to have grown up belonging to the University of Chicago community, since my mom, Ayelet Fishbach, is a professor at Booth and I attended the Lab schools from grades four through 12. Why did you choose the University of Chicago? While traditional telescopes allow us to see the light that is emitted from objects in our universe, gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO allow us to “hear” events, such as two black holes crashing into each other billions of light years away. I use gravitational waves to learn about black holes and neutron stars. What have you been studying or researching as part of your program? We interviewed her via email about her experiences at UChicago. She defended her thesis in May, 2020 and will be a NASA Hubble Fellowship Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University in the fall. She earned a BS in math and physics at Yale University before returning to pursue her PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Maya Fishbach was born in Tel Aviv, Israel but has called Chicago home since she was nine years old.
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