Dr. Lynn Matthews is a Principal Research Scientist and Assistant Director at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory where she specializes in observational astrophysics. Her current research focuses on study of radio emission from evolved, mass-losing stars and on the deployment of new technologies for observational radio astronomy.

Dr. Matthews received a B.A. in Astronomy/Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her previous appointments include a Jansky Fellowship at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, VA and a Clay Fellowship at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA.