Eun-Joo Ahn

Eun-Joo is a historian of science who explores how science shapes and gets shaped by our surroundings. Her postdoctoral project will examine the sociocultural role of Korean and Korean American scientists during the twentieth century in transnational contexts. Her history dissertation project examined how astronomers of Mount Wilson Observatory interacted with the natural and socio-economic environment of Southern California during the early twentieth century. She was previously a particle astrophysicist who worked on the composition and hadronic interaction of ultra high energy cosmic rays and holds a Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Chicago.