Cameron Hummels

As the Director of Astrophysics Outreach at Caltech, Hummels is an expert at simplifying complicated topics in physics and astronomy for broad audiences.  He hosts the popular Stargazing Lectures and Astronomy on Tap events, organizes star parties in national parks, has served as scientific consultant on several sci-fi films, and gives frequent public astronomy lectures around California and beyond.

Hummels is an expert in galaxies and the processes that dictate their formation and evolution over cosmic time including star formation, supernovae, and black holes. By building and running complex simulations of galaxies on supercomputers, Dr. Hummels studies the interplay between galaxies and their environments, making predictions for the next generation of space-based telescopes like James Webb and the Habitable Worlds Observatory.