Profession and title:
Assistant Professor of Physics
Interests:
Laura is interested in studying the past 13 billion years of cosmic history through measurements of the CMB and 21cm emission from faraway galaxies. Her work involves building instruments that go on telescopes in Chile and Canada. She enjoys running (not that she’s had a chance to do that recently), hanging out with scientists (because she only knows scientists), and using natural selection to build stronger plants through abject neglect.
Brief biography:
Laura has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Dunlap Institute, a postdoctoral position at Princeton University, and she got her phD from Columbia University. Her BA was from Barnard College in NYC. She and her husband, Eduardo da Silva Neta (also faculty in the physics department) are parents to Beatrice (born 2021).
Areas for involvement with Morse students:
Academic advising for first-year students
Advising and mentoring for upperclassmen
Email Address:
Phone Number:
203-432-9168