Anna Ho
University of California, Berkeley
Research Focus
About Anna
I study the extreme deaths of massive stars, with a focus on relativistic explosions and eruptive mass-loss. To find these explosions I use wide-field time-domain surveys and massively multiplexed spectrographs. To characterize them I use telescopes observing across the electromagnetic spectrum, including X-rays, submillimeter wavelengths, and radio waves.
Honors
AAS Rodger Doxsey Prize
First Place, MIT DeWitt Wallace Prize for Science Writing for the Public
Fulbright Student Research Grant
Garmire Scholarship, Caltech
MIT Karl Taylor Compton Prize
Miller Fellow, UC Berkeley
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Springer Thesis Prize
Education
Postdoc
Miller Institute, University of California, Berkeley, 09/2020 - 09/2023
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Ph.D.
Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 07/2020
Master's
Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 06/2017
Bachelor's
Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 06/2014
