Ana Bonaca

Ana Bonaca is a Fellow at the Institute for Theory and Computation, hosted by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. She works on creating a 3D, high-resolution map of the Milky Way halo, which is dominated by the elusive dark matter. In her research, she collects and employs data from ground- and space-based observatories, analyzes numerical simulations and develops new statistical tools. Ana obtained an Astronomy PhD from Yale University and was awarded the Brouwer prize for a distinguished thesis.