Rodrigo E. L. Córdova Rosado is a third year PhD student in the Astrophysical Sciences
Department at Princeton University, studying how to probe fundamental physics with
observations of galaxies. His recent work includes novel detections of extragalactic
background radiation and observations of stellar dust cloud environments. He was born
and raised in Puerto Rico, and is an enrolled member of the Osage Nation. He did his
undergraduate degrees in Astrophysics and Physics at Harvard University, and did an
MPhil in Archaeology of the Americas with a focus in Archaeoastronomy at Cambridge
University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar.