Catherine Zucker is a fourth-year PhD student in astronomy at Harvard. Her work focuses on understanding the structure of our Milky Way Galaxy, through the combination of observations, numerical simulations, statistics, and data visualization. She is advised by Professors Alyssa Goodman and Douglas Finkbeiner. Alyssa Goodman is the Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, a Co-Founder of the Initiative in Innovative Computing and a member of the Harvard Data Science Initiative steering committee, whose research spans astronomy, data visualization and online systems for research and education. Douglas Finkbeiner holds joint professorships in the departments of Astronomy and Physics, whose research spans high-energy astrophysics, dark-matter annihilation, Galactic structure, interstellar dust, and large photometric surveys.

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