Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler is an associate professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She earned her PhD from Goethe University in Germany.Her work explores the interface between the nearly perfect fluid obtained in heavy-ion collisions and the densest matter of the Universe found in the core of neutron stars. She received the 2018 Department of Energy Early Career Award and is an Alfred P. Sloan fellow. She was elected to the American Physical Society’s Division of Nuclear Physics Executive Committee and is in the leadership of both the MUSES and SURGE Collaborations.
