Ma Chung-pei

Ma Chung-Pei
馬中珮
Born
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, PhD)
AwardsMember of the National Academy of Sciences
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Fellow of the American Astronomical Society
Sloan Research Fellowship
Simons Foundation fellow
Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy
Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award
Scientific career
FieldsCosmology, astrophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley

Ma Chung-Pei (Chinese: 馬中珮; pinyin: Mǎ Zhōngpèi) is a Taiwanese-American astrophysicist and cosmologist. She is the Judy Chandler Webb Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. She led the teams that discovered several of largest known black holes from 2011 to 2016.