David Spergel

  Academic Leadership

David Spergel led Princeton's Astrophysical Sciences department and pioneered methods for analyzing cosmic microwave background radiation. His work established fundamental parameters of the universe.¹²

  NASA UAP Study

As chair of NASA's independent UAP study team, he applied his expertise in separating faint signals from instrumental noise to evaluate aerial phenomena data.³⁴⁵

  Current Work

He serves as president of the Simons Foundation and founding director of the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute.⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰

  References

1. Princeton faculty profile ↩

2. Simons Foundation bio ↩

3. Flatiron annual report 2023 ↩

4. Planck Collaboration papers (ESA) ↩

5. MacArthur Fellows press kit 1997 ↩

6. U.S. House Science Committee testimony 24 Jun 2021 ↩

7. National Academies Astro2020 report credits ↩

8. NASA Astrophysics Advisory Committee minutes 2018 ↩

9. APS fellowship citation 2001 ↩

10. Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal news 9 Jan 2024 ↩