Dr. Chung Pei Ma

Biography

Chung-Pei Ma is a Judy Chandler Webb Professor of Physical Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in astronomy and physics. She received her undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since joining the Berkeley faculty in 2002, she has previously served as a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology and as both an Assistant and Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. Ma has won the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and has served as a scientific editor for the Astrophysical Journal from 2007 to 2017. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the American Physical Society, American Astronomical Society, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. Additionally, she is an avid violin player and was an exchange student at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, studying cosmic strings in theoretical cosmology. Ma notably won a prize in the Taiwan National Violin Competition in 1983.

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