Andrea M. Ghez

Andrea M. Ghez
Ghez in April 2019
Born	Andrea Mia Ghez (1965-06-16) June 16, 1965 (age 59) New York City, U.S.
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) California Institute of Technology (MS, PhD)
Known for	Discovery of a supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center Adaptive optics
Awards	MacArthur Fellowship (2008) Crafoord Prize (2012) Nobel Prize in Physics (2020)
Scientific career
Fields	Astrophysics
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis	The Multiplicity of T Tauri Stars in the Star Forming Regions Taurus-Auriga and Ophiuchus-Scorpius: A 2.2μm Speckle Imaging Survey (1993)
Doctoral advisor	Gerry Neugebauer
Website	astro.ucla.edu/~ghez/

Andrea Mia Ghez (born June 16, 1965) is an American astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine chair in Astrophysics, at the University of California, Los Angeles.^[1] Her research focuses on the center of the Milky Way galaxy.^[2]

In 2020, she became the fourth woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing one half of the prize with Reinhard Genzel (the other half being awarded to Roger Penrose).^[1][3] The Nobel Prize was awarded to Ghez and Genzel for their discovery of a supermassive compact object, now generally recognized to be a black hole, in the Milky Way's Galactic Center.^[4][5]