While at the CfA, she was a National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs Postdoctoral Fellow working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She received her PhD in astroparticle physics from UCLA. Abby's research focus is observational Cosmology, the study of the early universe. Her research takes her to the South Pole, where she works with a team of scientists to build, test, and run a suite of microwave telescopes to look at the oldest light in the Universe to learn about what the early Universe was like. She thinks astronomy, physics, and Antarctica are really cool!