Kelle Cruz

NMOC Chair

Hunter College, City University of New York

Professor Kelle Cruz is an astronomer who earned her B.A. and Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and the American Museum of Natural History. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, and co-PI of the BDNYC research group, focusing on brown dwarfs. She is a member of the Coordination and Finance Committees of the Astropy Project. She is also a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History and a Visiting Scholar at the Flatiron Institute. Additionally, she founded AstroBetter.com and ScienceBetter Consulting.