Sherry Suyu

Prof. Sherry Suyu is an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA). Her research focuses on probing the dark cosmos through gravitational lensing, dark energy, dark matter, and supermassive black holes. She leads the H0LiCOW program measuring the universe's expansion rate using lensed quasars and the HOLISMOKES program studying lensed supernovae. Her work has been supported by an ERC Consolidator Grant.

Education and Affiliations: PhD in Physics from Caltech (2008), postdoctoral positions at UC Santa Barbara and Stanford University. Joint appointments at MPA (since 2016) and TUM. Member of the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS. Holds honorary positions including Emmy Noether Visiting Fellowship at Perimeter Institute (2018).

Research Interests: Gravitational lensing, cosmic expansion rate, galaxy evolution, supernovae, tidal disruption events, and deep learning applications. Her group studies galaxy clusters, dark matter distribution, and cosmological models using lensing techniques.

Awards: 2021 Berkeley Prize (AAS), 2024 ISIMM Senior Prize. Over 90 peer-reviewed publications. Teaches courses on extragalactic astrophysics and gravitational lensing at TUM.

Labs/Teams: Head of the Observational Cosmology Group at TUM-MPA. Collaborates internationally with institutions in the US, Europe, Japan, and Taiwan. Supervises postdocs, PhD students, and bachelor/master researchers.