Asantha R. Cooray, American Astrophysicist, researcher. Achievements include discovery of candidate gravitational lenses and detailed study of Saturn's upper atmospheric temperature structure.
M C. Member American Astronomical Society, American Geophysical Union, Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Sigma Pi Sigma.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996;
Bachelor of Science in Earth and Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996;
Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996;
Master of Science in Astrophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996.
Career
Research assistant, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1995;
research assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1993-1997;
research assistant, University of Chicago, since 1997.
Membership
Member American Astronomical Society, American Geophysical Union, Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Sigma Pi Sigma.