Catherine C. Espaillat is an American astronomer whose research is focused on the formation of planets, including the study of protoplanetary disks and young stellar objects.
[1][2] She is an associate professor of astronomy at Boston University, where she directs the Institute for Astrophysical Research.
[3] Espaillat comes from a working-class immigrant family;[4] her parents emigrated to the US from the Dominican Republic.
Next, she joined the Boston University Department of Astronomy as an assistant professor in 2013.
In 2022, the American Association for the Advancement of Science named Espaillat as an AAAS Fellow.