Sean Andrews



60 Garden Street, MS 42
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Office: M-310 (160 Concord Avenue); map
Phone: (+1) 617-496-7645
Email: sandrews (at) cfa.harvard.edu

Welcome to my homepage! I am a Senior Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Institution's Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), part of the Center for Astrophysics (CfA), a Lecturer in the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University, and the Director of the CfA Radio Telescope Data Center (RTDC).

I obtained undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics from Northwestern University (2001), and an MS (2003) and PhD (2007) from the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi. I was then a NASA Hubble Fellow at the CfA before joining the SAO staff in 2010.   (a brief curriculum vitae)

Research Interests:

I am an observational astronomer working in the Radio & Geoastronomy division of the CfA, with a research program focused on planet formation. My current interests include:
  • Protoplanetary Disks: physical conditions, dynamics, chemistry, and evolution of gas and solids, dust growth and transport, planetesimal formation, substructures, demographics
  • Young Stars and Planets: dynamical (stellar) masses, early stellar evolution, multiplicity, environmental impacts, planet-disk interactions, circumplanetary material
  • Radio Interferometry: visibility modeling, synthesis imaging, digital signal processing
 Research group     (information for visitors and prospective students or postdocs)
🌠 I have a postdoctoral fellowship position available starting in fall of 2025. Please see here to apply.

Publications: on NASA ADS.
Code: on Github.
Data: for DSHARP, MAPS, and other miscellany.