Background
Chung-Pei Ma was born in Taiwan.
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Chung-Pei Ma was born in Taiwan.
She then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), receiving her Bachelor of Science in physics in 1987. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. She studied theoretical cosmology and particle physics with Alan Guth and Edmund West. Bertschinger, her doctoral advisors.
She is a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. She led the team that discovered the largest known black holes in 2011. She started playing violin at the age of four.
She also took violin classes at Boston"s New England Conservatory of Music.
From 1993 to 1996 Ma had a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. From 1996 to 2001 she was an associate and assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
She became a professor of astronomy at University of California Berkeley"s Department of Physics in 2001. Ma"s research interests are the large-scale structure of the universe, dark matter, and the cosmic microwave background.
She led the team that discovered the largest known black holes in 2011.
Ma is the scientific editor in cosmology for The Astrophysical Journal. 1987 – Phi Beta Kappa Society North. R.
