Alumni Career Talk with Alexandra Amon

Alexandra grew up in the tiny islands of Trinidad & Tobago, and is now an Assistant Prof in Astrophysics at Princeton University. Alexandra studied at the University of Edinburgh on an Island Scholarship. There, she received a First Class (Hons) undergraduate (MPhys) degree in astrophysics and a PhD with Catherine Heymans and Chris Blake. Then she was a Kavli Fellow at Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Stanford in Risa Wechsler’s Galaxy formation and cosmology group. Alexandra was also a Senior Kavli Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and a Senior Researcher at Trinity College.

Alexandra is passionate about science outreach and an advocate for making STEM fields more accessible and welcoming to everyone.