Matt Hosek is currently an astronomy postdoc with the Galactic Center Group at UCLA. He completed his Ph.D. in 2018 at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa under the direction of Professor Jessica Lu. His research focuses on the formation and dynamics of stars near the center of our Galaxy. As a Brinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Hosek uses data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes to develop a new reference frame to measure the orbits of stars near the Galactic Center with improved precision and accuracy. This will enable tests of General Relativity and probe the distribution of matter near the central supermassive black hole. He is also measuring the masses of stars in two young star clusters in the region in order to evaluate how the extreme environment near the Galactic Center impacts the physics of star formation.
Matthew Hosek
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