Cosmic Magnetism & Interstellar Physics

Susan E. Clark

I am an Assistant Professor of Physics at Stanford. I am an astrophysicist, with primary research interests in cosmic magnetic fields, magnetohydrodynamic processes, and the interstellar medium. My group and I tackle these complex systems with a combination of observation, simulation, and analytic theory.

Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford, I was a NASA Hubble Fellow and postdoctoral member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. I received my Ph.D. in 2017 from Columbia University, where I was an NSF Graduate Fellow, and I attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Morehead-Cain scholarship. I am originally from Annandale, Virginia.

Astrophysical magnetism is a data-intensive, multi-wavelength field. I collaborate on a number of ambitious astrophysics and cosmology experiments, including the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Simons Observatory, CMB-S4, CCAT-Prime, LiteBIRD, PICO, the Galactic Australian SKA Pathfinder (GASKAP), the Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey (GMIMS), and the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST). I co-founded the Pan-Experiment Galactic Science Group, which brings together scientists from a number of collaborations to facilitate Milky Way science with CMB experiment data.

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