Michael Strauss is a professor of Astrophysics at Princeton University. He was an undergraduate and graduate student at Berkeley, and did postdoctoral research at Caltech and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study before joining the faculty at the university in 1995. He is an observational astronomer, using telescopes both on the ground and in space to map the sky. He is known for his discoveries and studies of distant quasars and the three-dimensional distribution of galaxies in the universe. He has taught at all levels, from introductory astronomy for non-scientists to cosmology for graduate students.
