Eliot Quataert is a Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and the
Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy at Princeton
University. Quataert is an astrophysics theorist who
works on a wide range of problems, including stars and black holes,
plasma astrophysics, and how galaxies form. He has received a
number of national awards for his research, including the Warner
Prize of the AAS, the Packard Fellowship, a Simons
Investigator award from the Simons Foundation, and elected
membership in the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
Quataert is also a highly regarded teacher and public
lecturer.