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Susan E. Clark

Susan Clark
Clark in 2024
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.S.)
Columbia University (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsStanford University

Susan E. Clark is an American astrophysicist and professor who currently serves as an assistant professor of physics at Stanford University and also serves as co-director of the Stanford Center for Decoding the Universe. Her work focuses on the interstellar medium. She was awarded the Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy in 2025 and was named as one of the Time 100 Next of 2026.

Biography

She studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned a bachelor's degree in Physics. While there, she co-founded the Women in Physics club. She then went on to earn a PhD in astrophysics from Columbia.[1]

She became a Hubble Fellow, hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study, in 2017.[2] As her position did not involve teaching, she built up teaching experience by volunteer-teaching college-level astrophysics courses with the Prison Teaching Initiative at Princeton University.[1][3]

In September 2021, she started as a professor at the Stanford University.[4] She became co-director of the Center for Decoding the Universe at Stanford upon its launching in October 2024.[5]

As a professor, her focus has been on the physics of the interstellar medium[6] and especially on interstellar magnetic fields, with one of her main focuses being on mapping the dust distribution and magnetic field changes through polarization of background light.[7][8] She helped discover Galactic ISM Fibers (elongated, slender, linear structures of atomic hydrogen), and created the Rolling Hough Transform to analyze them.[9] In 2026, she began developing interpretable foundation models for galaxies, utilizing artificial intelligence to integrate multi-wavelength telescope data.[10]

She was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2024.[11] She was awarded the Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy in 2025 for "Seminal contributions to our observations of cosmic magnetism, and for the development of innovative observational techniques for studying the interstellar medium and cosmological foregrounds."[12][13] She was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2025 for her project "Untangling the physics of the magnetic, multiphase interstellar medium".[14]

She was named as one of the Time 100 Next in 2026: her profile was written by Scott Tremaine.[15] She also received a Stanford HAI Seed Research Grant in 2026.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b "Susan Clark '12—Exploring the beauty of physics". Morehead Cain. Retrieved 2026-05-15.
  2. ^ "NASA Announces Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellows for 2017". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Retrieved 2026-05-15.
  3. ^ "Mapping Cosmic Magnetism in the Space Between the Stars - California Academy of Sciences". www.calacademy.org. Retrieved 2026-05-15.
  4. ^ "ORGANIZING COMMITTEE – Kavli Astrophysics Community Forum". astroforum2021.kavlimeetings.org. Retrieved 2026-05-15.
  5. ^ "Decoding the mysteries of the universe". news.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2026-05-15.
  6. ^ "Gravity Group Lunch Seminar, Susan Clark | IAS "The magnetic interstellar medium and the polarized dust foreground" | Department of Physics". phy.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2026-05-15.
  7. ^ Yadavalli, Karthik (2025-06-09). "Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Susan Clark". astrobites.org. Retrieved 2026-05-15.
  8. ^ "The Stuff Between The Stars | Physics Department". physics.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2026-05-15.
  9. ^ Clark, S. E.; Peek, J. E. G.; Putman, M. E. (2013-12-04). "Magnetically Aligned HI Fibers and the Rolling Hough Transform". arXiv.org. Retrieved 2026-05-15.
  10. ^ a b "Center for Decoding the Universe Co-Director Susan Clark Awarded Stanford HAI Seed Grant for Interpretable Galaxy Foundation Model | Data Science". datascience.stanford.edu. 2026-04-29. Retrieved 2026-05-15.
  11. ^ "6 Stanford faculty among 2024 Sloan Research Fellows". news.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2026-05-15.
  12. ^ "AAS Names Recipients of 2025 Awards & Prizes | American Astronomical Society". aas.org. Retrieved 2026-05-15.
  13. ^ "Alumnus Susan Clark wins the Helen B. Warner Prize | Astronomy & Astrophysics". www.astro.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2026-05-15.
  14. ^ "Susan Clark, Grant Rotskoff win NSF CAREER awards | Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences". humsci.stanford.edu. 2025-05-16. Retrieved 2026-05-15.
  15. ^ Tremaine, Scott. "Time Next100: Susan Clark". Time. Retrieved May 15, 2026.

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