Rodrigo Córdova Rosado

My name is Rodrigo, I’m a final year Ph.D. Candidate and Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. Working with Prof. Jenny Greene and Dr. Andy Goulding, I study the evolution and impact of supermassive black holes on galaxy formation via observations of Active Galactic Nuclei, also known as quasars. My scholarship aims to exploit different analysis techniques to ask questions about the evolution of galaxies in the Universe, and learn more about the fundamental physical properties that underlie these processes, which you can read more about in the research tab.

I was born and raised on my home island of Puerto Rico, and am an enrolled citizen of the Osage Nation. I did my undergraduate degrees in Astrophysics and Physics at Harvard University, and obtained an MPhil in Archaeology of the Americas with a focus in Archaeoastronomy at Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. As part of my archaeological work, I am interested in monumental architecture and the ways it may encode the way ancestral communities saw the cosmos. In particular, I have developed novel analyses of the astronomical alignments of Ancestral Puebloan structures in the American Southwest, and identified a novel set of astronomical alignments in classical Mesoamerican architecture.