Liam D. Connor
I am an astrophysicist and radio astronomer. Last year, I started as Assistant Professor in Astronomy at Harvard University. I spend a lot of my time thinking about Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), a mysterious new class of extragalactic transients. I'm interested in their application to cosmology in addition to questions around their physical origin. I also develop large radio telescopes and build tools at the intersection of AI and astronomy.
Prior to Harvard I worked at the California Institute of Technology (2020-2024), where I was a Tolman Prize Fellow and then research faculty. Before that, I was at the University of Amsterdam / ASTRON. I attended McGill University for undergrad and obtained my Ph.D. from the University of Toronto with Profs. Ue-Li Pen and Keith Vanderlinde.
liam.connor@cfa.harvard.edu
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