Laura Chomiuk is a professor of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University, where she researches energetic stellar events like novae, supernovae, and black hole jets at a range of wavelengths, with a particular focus on radio observations. With these observations she can probe the physics of these events, to test models of both the progenitor systems and the ejections themselves.
Laura is the co-director of the MSU Observatory, a 24 inch telescope facility on MSU's agricultural campus. She engages ~20 undergraduates in research at the Observatory at any given time, through the MSU Observatory Research Program (MORP).