Lauren Ilsedore Cleeves is an American astrophysicist and an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Virginia.
From 2015 to 2018, Cleeves was a Hubble Fellow at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
[2] Before that, she received her PhD from the University of Michigan under supervision of Edwin Bergin.
She studies the chemistry, composition, and structure of young planetary systems in formation around low-mass stars, using theoretical modelling and observations from Atacama Large Millimeter Array and Herschel Space Observatory.
[5] In 2018, Cleeves was awarded the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy "for her groundbreaking work on planet formation and protoplanetary disks".