Julius A. Stratton Professor in Electrical Engineering and Physics
Jacqueline Hewitt is the Julius A. Stratton Professor in Electrical Engineering and Physics. Appointed Director of MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research in January 2002, Professor Hewitt began her career at MIT in 1986 as a postdoctoral associate in the Very Long Baseline Interferometry group at the MIT Haystack Observatory. After a one-year sojourn as a research staff member in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University, she returned to MIT in 1989 as an Assistant Professor of physics. Professor Hewitt stepped down as director of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research in January 2019.
Research Interests:
Professor Hewitt’s research interests are in the application of techniques of radio astronomy and signal processing to problems in astrophysics. Current topics are low-frequency radio studies of the Epoch of Reionization and the Dark Ages, and surveys of transient astronomical radio emission. She was a founding collaborator in the Murchison Widefield Array project, a low-frequency radio telescope in Western Australia designed to study the Epoch of Reionization. Professor Hewitt is currently one of the lead investigators of a larger array with similar scientific goals, the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array telescope project in South Africa (see MIT News).
Professor Hewitt’s research interests are in the application of techniques of radio astronomy and signal processing to problems in astrophysics. Current topics are low-frequency radio studies of the Epoch of Reionization and the Dark Ages, and surveys of transient astronomical radio emission. She was a founding collaborator in the Murchison Widefield Array project, a low-frequency radio telescope in Western Australia designed to study the Epoch of Reionization. Professor Hewitt is currently one of the lead investigators of a larger array with similar scientific goals, the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array telescope project in South Africa (see MIT News).
Key Publications:
List of Professor Hewitt’s recent publications
List of Professor Hewitt’s recent publications
Honors and Awards
American Astronomical Society Legacy Fellow , 2020
Elected American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow , 2018
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 2016
Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2004
Maria Goeppert Mayer Award (APS), 1995
Sloan Research Fellowship , 1990