Dr. Renee Ludlam

Dr. Renee Ludlam, Assistant Professor

AAS HEAD Secretary

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

2023 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize winner awarded by the American Astronomical Society

NASA Hubble Fellowship Program- Einstein Fellow, Caltech (2019-2022)

PhD, University of Michigan (2019)

E-mail: renee.ludlam[at]wayne[dot]edu

About:

I am an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. I am interested in studying the phenomena associated with the most extreme objects in the Universe: black holes and neutron stars. I have studied black holes across the mass scales (supermassive to stellar mass) prior to pivoting towards investigating the matter that exists in an ultra-dense, cold state within neutron stars.

Teaching:

Winter 2025- AST/PHY 6080/7080: Survey of Astrophysics

Fall 2024 - AST 5010/PHY 5010: Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy

Winter 2024 - AST 4100: Astronomical Techniques

Fall 2023 - AST 2030: Life in the Universe

Fall 2022 - AST 5010/PHY 5010: Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy

Current Group Members:

Postdoctoral Researchers:

Dr. Malu Sudha (2023 - present)

Graduate Students:

Hayden Hall (2022- present)

Songwei Li (2022 - 2025: successfully defended PhD June 2025)

David Moutard (2022 - 2025: successfully defended PhD July 2024; now a postdoc at UofM)

Undergraduate Students:

Dalal Darwish (graduated 2024)

Callie Collins (UROP Summer 2024)

Quick Links:

Publications can be found here: ADS Bumblebee Link or ORCID

"The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline that deals with the universe's divine revolutions, the stars' motions, sizes, distances, risings and settings . . . for what is more beautiful than heaven?" - Nicolaus Copernicus

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