Alicia Soderberg

Alicia Margarita Soderberg (born 1977) is an American astrophysicist who is an assistant professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics whose research focuses on supernovae.

Born in Boston, Soderberg was raised in Falmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, where she attended Falmouth High School and spent summers at the nearby Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution studying the effect of water pollution on coastal ponds. She attended Bates College, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2000 with a double major in Math and Physics and participated during the summer in programs at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. She earned a Master of Science from the University of Cambridge in Applied Mathematics. She was awarded her doctorate in Astrophysics from the California Institute of Technology under the guidance of advisor Shrinivas Kulkarni, where her thesis used data gathered from the Palomar Observatory and the Very Large Array to provide a better understanding of gamma ray bursts and stripped core-collapse supernovae.

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