Sanaea Rose
Tuesday May 6, 2025
4pm
Marlar lounge & via zoom
Sanaea Rose is a Lindheimer Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), Northwestern University. She studies interactions between stars and stellar remnants in dense star clusters, and in particular, how these interactions lead to unique populations of stars, binaries, and black holes and drive extreme events like collisions, mergers, and tidal disruptions. Rose enjoys leveraging simple physical models to build intuition about complex astrophysical environments. She completed her PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics in 2023 at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was advised by Smadar Naoz. Rose received her B.A. in astrophysics from Wellesley College in 2017.
In addition to research pursuits, Rose is passionate about serving and building community in both public and professional spheres. As a member of UCLA’s Physics & Astronomy Department Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, she helped establish DiversiTea, a department-wide diversity journal club. Rose was also a coordinator for UCLA’s Astronomy Live! outreach program and Astronomy on Tap West LA from 2019-2022 and an active member of the astronomy graduate program’s peer mentoring program. At CIERA, she serves on the Mentoring Action Team, which connects mentors and mentees across different career stages and organizes monthly events such as mentorship training.