Emily Levesque

Emily Levesque is an Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate in Astronomy from the University of Hawai‘i. She was a postdoctoral Einstein Fellow and Hubble Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Professor Levesque has received a number of national and international research prizes for her work. She received both the Annie Jump Cannon Award and the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize for outstanding achievement in observational astronomical research from the American Astronomical Society. She was also awarded the Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage by the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College Dublin. She has been a Scialog Fellow, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, a Kavli Fellow, and a Cottrell Scholar. She has also received competitive research funding from NASA and the National Science Foundation.

Professor Levesque is the author of The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers, which offers readers a behind-the-scenes tour of the science, personal stories, and adventures of a professional astronomer. She is also the author or coauthor of two upper-level academic texts, Astrophysics of Red Supergiants and Understanding Stellar Evolution (with Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers).