Natascha M. Förster Schreiber (born 1970) is an astronomer specializing in near-infrared spectroscopy of early galaxies.
Her master's thesis, jointly supervised by Daniel Nadeau and René Doyon, concerned infrared observations of Messier 82.
Her dissertation, Near infrared imaging spectroscopy and mid-infrared spectroscopy of M82: revealing the nature of star formation activity in the archetypal starburst galaxy, was advised by Reinhard Genzel; the American Astronomical Society also lists Linda Tacconi as a co-advisor.
[2][5] She became a postdoctoral researcher in France, at the Direction des Sciences et de la Matière of CEA Paris-Saclay, from 1998 to 2000, and then in The Netherlands, at the Leiden Observatory, from 2000 to 2004.
She joined the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics as a research associate in 2004, and became a tenured senior scientist there in 2013.