Assistant Director and Principal Research Scientist, MIT Haystack Observatory |
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.