The Biggest, Baddest Black Holes

Lea is a Ph.D. candidate in Astrophysics and is a space scientist, studying the most powerful black holes in the Universe. Lea is 26 and comes from Italy. She has been working on her Ph.D. in Astrophysics at Clemson University for the past five years. Her strongest interest is in everything that is highly energetic in the Universe. Her research is about finding and studying the most powerful black holes in the Universe using NASA satellite data.

As an international student, she feels that this community has given her a lot, and she would love to have the chance to reach out and share the wonderful ideas behind her work at Clemson.