Rukmani Vijayaraghavan, 2018-2019 AIP Congressional Science Fellow
SEP 01, 2018
Office of Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-WA)
Member Societies: American Astronomical Society, American Physical Society
Rukmani Vijayaraghavan
Background
Rukmani Vijayaraghavan received a Ph.D. in Astronomy in 2015 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focus has been on understanding the evolution of galaxies in the extreme environments of galaxy clusters using numerical simulations on supercomputers. From 2015-2018, she was an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia. She also founded and ran the ‘Girls Exploring the Universe’ annual summer camp for middle school girls at UVA.