Alicia M. Soderberg

Who is Alicia M. Soderberg?

Alicia Margarita Soderberg is an American astrophysicist who is an assistant professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics whose research focuses on supernovae.

Born in Boston, Soderberg was raised in Falmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, where she attended Falmouth High School and spent summers at the nearby Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution studying the effect of water pollution on coastal ponds. She attended Bates College, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2000 with a double major in Math and Physics and participated during the summer in programs at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. She earned a Master of Science from the University of Cambridge in Applied Mathematics.