Marie Machacek

Marie E. Machacek is an astrophysicist conducting research in the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. She earned a BA in physics and mathematics from Coe College, in 1969; an MS in physics from the University of Michigan, in 1970; and a PhD in physics from the University of Iowa, in 1973. Her current research explores interacting galaxies and the evolution of galaxies in galaxy groups and clusters.^[1] She is also the current coordinator for the SAO Astronomy Intern Program.

Machacek was co-author of a Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian study concerning galaxy NGC 5195 presented in January 2016 at the 227th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).^[2]

Machacek was an Alumni Fellow at the University of Michigan 1974-77.^[3] She was on the physics faculty of Northeastern University, 1979-2002. In 2003-2004 she was a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.^[4]

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