Lieke van Son

Astronomer

About

I am an astronomer with main research interests in gravitational-wave progenitors, binary evolution, and massive stellar evolution theory. I use large grids of simulations to learn something about the elusive life of massive stars.

Starting in the fall of 2023, I am a Research Fellow at the CCA of the Flatiron Institute and a Lyman Spitzer, Jr. fellow at Princeton University. I am furthermore an incoming fellow to the Princeton University Society of Fellows. I completed my Ph.D. at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard in May 2023, and defended my thesis for a joint doctorate at the Anton Pannekoek Institute, University of Amsterdam in December 2023.

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