During its 245th meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, the American Astronomical Society (AAS) announced that Professor Maya Fishbach was the 2025 recipient of the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy. Dr. Fishbach was a NASA Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow at CIERA from 2018 to 2022. Today she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto’s Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA).
The Annie Jump Cannon Award recognizes outstanding research and potential in a postdoctoral women researcher. The award includes an honorarium and the recipient is invited to give a talk at a future meeting of the AAS.
Dr. Fishbach is being recognized for her major contributions to the field of gravitational-wave astrophysics and cosmology, including interference of the black hole merger rate and its implications for the formation of stellar-mass black holes, their host galaxies, and the expansion history of the Universe.