Rohan Naidu

Rohan grew up in Hyderabad, India. In a Bollywood-esque plot twist, at age 18, he dropped out of engineering school, bought his first-ever plane ticket, and joined the founding class of 150 students at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. He discovered the joys of astronomy studying blazars in the Chilean Andes with Prof. Charles Bailyn and as an exchange student with Dr. Iva Momcheva and Prof. Pascal Oesch in the van Dokkum group at Yale. For his Ph.D. thesis supervised by Prof. Charlie Conroy at Harvard, Rohan surveyed the Milky Way’s farthest reaches to excavate ancient, immigrant galaxies that have been assimilated by our galaxy as a core member of the H3 Survey. Outside astronomy, Rohan is a quiz-bowl/trivia enthusiast, published poet, and is always down to watch test cricket.