Rachel Bezanson

Rachel Bezanson is an observational astronomer who uses ground- and space-based telescopes to study the formation and evolution of massive galaxies across cosmic time. She is co-Principal Investigator of the JWST UNCOVER Treasury program. Bezanson earned her BA in Astrophysics from Barnard College, her PhD in Astronomy from Yale University, and was a Hubble Fellow at Steward Observatory and a Russell Fellow at Princeton University. She joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in 2017, where she is a Cottrell Scholar and recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award. Originally from Jamestown, Colorado, she is always happy for an excuse to return to the mountains.