About Ramesh Narayan

Ramesh Narayan is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University, a Senior Astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA, and a Senior Faculty Member at the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University.

He has made fundamental and pioneering contributions across a broad range of astrophysics, from accretion disks and electromagnetic jets to gamma-ray bursts and galaxy clusters.

Professor Narayan is a fellow of the Royal Society of London, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences.

He received his PhD in physics from Bangalore University, India, in 1979. Before joining Harvard University in 1991, he was a faculty member at the University of Arizona.