Anna Frebel

Anna Frebel is Assistant Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has received numerous international honors and awards for her discoveries and subsequent chemical abundance analyses of the oldest stars and how these stars can be employed to uncover information about the early Universe some 13 billion years ago. Prof. Frebel has authored more than 70 papers in various refereed journals, including Nature, and enjoys communicating science to the public through public lectures, magazine articles, interviews as well as her popular science book "Searching for the Oldest Stars" (in book stores Dec 2 2015, by Princeton University Press).