Vera L. Berger

I am a first-year PhD student in Physics at MIT, where I use multiwavelength observations of compact objects to study their variability on timescales ranging from microseconds to years.

Prior to joining MIT, I studied stellar flares, using theory and observation to investigate the impact of flares on planetary habitability. I pursued an MPhil in Scientific Computing at the University of Cambridge, where I developed magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the magnetic processes that cause stellar flares.

I previously graduated from Pomona College, where I studied supernova host galaxies and the combinatorics of partially ordered sets.