Andrew Baker

AURA Board Vice-Chair

Rutgers University

Andrew Baker is a distinguished professor at Rutgers University and an extraordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape. His research focuses on the use of radio, millimeter, and submillimeter observations of interstellar matter to probe galaxy evolution in the nearby and distant universe. Baker was the AURA Member Representative for Rutgers from 2014 through 2023 and has served on the AURA Board of Directors since 2019. He is a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.