Ma Chung-Pei (Chinese: 馬中珮; pinyin: Mǎ Zhōngpèi) is a Taiwanese-American astrophysicist and cosmologist.
She attended Taipei Municipal First Girls' Senior High School and won the Taiwan National Violin Competition in 1983.
[2] She then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), receiving her Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1987.
She studied theoretical cosmology and particle physics with Alan Guth and Edmund W. Bertschinger, her doctoral advisors.
Ma's research interests are the large-scale structure of the universe, dark matter, and the cosmic microwave background.