Faculty

JACQUELINE HEWITT
Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research

JACQUELINE N. HEWITT, Professor of Physics; Director, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research

Name: Jacqueline N. Hewitt

Title(s): Professor of Physics
Director, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research

Email: jhewitt@mit.edu

Phone: (617) 253-3071

Assistant: Debbie Meinbresse (617) 253-1456

Address:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. 37-241
Cambridge, MA 02139

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Area of Physics:

Cosmology: Radio

Education:

  • B. 1980, BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
  • Ph.D. 1986, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)

Selected Awards and Honors:

  • American Physical Society Fellow
  • American Physical Society Prize
  • Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering

Research Interests

Professor Hewitt's research interests are focused upon applying the techniques of radio astronomy, interferometry, and image processing to basic research in astrophysics and cosmology.  Current topics of interest are observational signatures of the epoch of reionization and the detection of transient astronomical radio sources.

Professor Hewitt is also interested in the development of new instrumentation and techniques for radio astronomy.  She is currently involved in pathfinder experiments for low frequency radio telescopes with large aperture, optimized for certain cosmological studies.

In particular, she is part of a collaboration of U.S., Australian, Indian, and New Zealand universities and research institutions that is building the Murchison Widefield Array in radio-quiet Western Australia.

Biographical Sketch

Appointed Director of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research in January 2002, Professor Hewitt began her career at MIT in 1986 as a postdoctoral associate in the Very Long Baseline Interferometry group at the MIT Haystack Observatory. After a one-year sojourn as a research staff member in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University, she returned to MIT in 1989 as an Assistant Professor of physics.

Selected Publications

List of Professor Hewitt's recent publications, available in PDF, PostScript, and other formats.

Last updated: 04.01.2013