Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of New Hampshire. Her research focuses on theoretical physics, astrophysics, and dark matter, with particular expertise in neutron star physics, ultralight dark matter dynamics, and multifield inflationary cosmology. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, an M.S. from the University of California-Santa Cruz, and an A.B. from Harvard University.

Her work bridges particle physics and astrophysics, addressing questions about dense matter equations of state via neutron star observations, axion-like dark matter simulations, and cosmological structure formation. Recent contributions include developing the NEoST Python package for neutron star studies and analyzing NICER mission data to constrain dense matter properties.

Prescod-Weinstein teaches advanced courses such as Astrophysics I, Quantum Mechanics I, and doctoral research seminars. Her research incorporates numerical simulations, Bayesian statistical methods, and observational data from space-based telescopes like NICER and XMM-Newton.