Dr Karen Perez

Breakthrough Listen Visiting Scholar

 Karen Perez is a rising 5th-year graduate student in Astronomy at Columbia University. She graduated from Cornell University in 2019 with a B.A. in Astrophysics, and began her journey with Breakthrough listen shortly after during the summer of 2019 as an REU intern. Her thesis is on searching for redback pulsars using multi-wavelength analysis in the field of the galaxy, and looking for pulsars in the Galactic Center. Working with Vishal Gajjar, her current projects with Breakthrough Listen involve searching for technosignatures in the Galactic Center and Plane using the GBT, SRT, and Parkes, as well as mentoring both Italian and Berkeley-based interns on these projects.