Karin Sandstrom

Me and the SOFIA telescope!

I received my Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics in 2009 from the University of California, Berkeley. I then moved to Heidelberg, Germany as a postdoctoral researcher in the Galaxies and Cosmology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. In 2011, I was awarded a Marie Curie fellowship from the European Union to continue my postdoctoral work at MPIA. I moved to Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona in 2013 to become the Bok Postdoctoral Fellow. In August 2015, I started as an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego in the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences. In 2021, I was promoted to Associate Professor.