Marla Geha
Astronomy Department, Yale University
Research Focus
Research Interests
About Marla
Marla Geha is a professor and astrophysicist at Yale University. She obtained her B.S. in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1995 and her PhD in Astrophysics from University of California Santa Cruz in 2003. Geha utilizes the world’s largest telescopes to study the smallest galaxies in the Universe. She has received various honors including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, and a John S. Guggenheim Fellowship and is currently and HHMI Fellow. She is on the Board of the Warrior Scholar Project and runs the REVU summer research program.
Honors
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
John S. Guggenheim Fellow
John S. Guggenheim Fellow
Education
Postdoc
Carnegie Observatories, 09/2003 - 06/2006
Ph.D.
Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 06/2003
Master's
Astronomy, New Mexico State University, 06/1998
Bachelor's
Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 06/1995
