Jacqueline McCleary, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Physics, Northeastern University

Jacqueline McCleary is an observational cosmologist who uses galaxy clusters as a laboratory in which to explore the nature of dark matter and its interaction with galaxies. She received her Ph.D. in physics at Brown University and served as a post-doctoral fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory before joining Northeastern University. She is a collaborator in the Local Volume Complete Cluster Survey (LoVoCCS), the SuperpressureBalloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT), and COSMOS-Web (a JWST collaboration).