About me
Stella Offner is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin who holds appointments in the Astronomy Department and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. After completing her PhD at UC Berkeley, she was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and then a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale. As faculty, she is the recipient of an NSF Early Career Award and a Cottrell Scholar Award.
Her research explores how stars form by combining computer models, telescope observations, and statistical techniques. A core focus of her work aims to develop methods to effectively use AI to analyze astronomy data and predict properties that cannot be directly observed.
