Smadar Naoz (Hebrew: סמדר נאוז) (born 1978)[1] is an Israeli-American astrophysicist, and was the 2015 winner of the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy for her scientific contributions to the fields of cosmology and planetary dynamics.

[2][3] Naoz grew up in Jerusalem, Israel, and developed her love for astrophysics at a young age with her mother regularly watching Star Trek: The Original Series with her and her younger sister.

[1][4] After obtaining her PhD, Naoz accepted an IAU Gruber postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA).

After her tenure as an IAU Gruber postdoc, she became an Einstein Fellow at the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[5] Naoz is continuing her research, and working as an assistant professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles.