马中珮1966—

生平

马中珮是知名新闻学者马骥伸和资深新闻人黄肇珩的女儿。私立静心幼稚园，私立复兴小学、复兴中学初中部毕业。高中就读台北市立第一女中，于16岁时获得全台湾青少年小提琴竞赛冠军。升高中三年级时，她想要接受美国的一流大学的教育以及跟随名师继续学习小提琴，决定休学，至美国德州休斯顿的的叔叔家，准备在美国就读高三。在9月赴美后，因为美国的高中已经开学，来不及入学，在一个月的准备后，她通过SAT考试，申请上麻省理工学院，因此进入麻省理工大学就读，主修物理。在此一路攻读到博士学位。同时，至波士顿新英格兰音乐学院修读小提琴表演课程，并登台演出。

在大学时代，她最早跟随阿兰·古斯，从事理论天体物理学。在宇宙背景探测者的实验结果公布后，在博士的最后一年，她决定改变领域，改为偏重实验及探测方向的研究，其博士指导教授是埃德蒙·博钦格。之后历任加州理工学院博士后研究、宾州大学天文及物理学系助理教授、柏克莱加州大学天文研究员。现任柏克莱加州大学天文物理学教授，及兼任台湾中央研究院天文及天文物理研究所研究员。

马中珮研究的主题是天文物理和宇宙学。

家庭

马中珮已婚，并育有一子。

学术荣誉

1997年“安妮卡农奖（Annie Canon Award）”。

2000年海外华人物理学会“年度杰出年轻研究学者奖”。

2001年海外华人物理学会“杰出人员奖”。

2003年美国物理学会玛丽亚·格佩特-梅耶奖

2012年中国北京凤凰卫视“影响世界华人奖”。

2020年获选为美国人文与科学院院士。

2024年当选中央研究院院士。

Ma Chung-Pei (Chinese: 馬中珮; pinyin: Mǎ Zhōngpèi) is a Taiwanese-American astrophysicist and cosmologist. She is the Judy Chandler Webb Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. She led the teams that discovered several of largest known black holes from 2011 to 2016.

Biography

Ma was born in Taiwan to parents Huang Chao-heng and Ma Chi-shen. She started playing violin at the age of four. She attended Taipei Municipal First Girls' Senior High School and won the Taiwan National Violin Competition in 1983. She then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), receiving her Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1987. She then earned a Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 1993. She studied theoretical cosmology and particle physics with Alan Guth and Edmund W. Bertschinger, her doctoral advisors. A violin prodigy as a teenager in Taiwan, winning a national violin competition in Taipei when she was 16, she also took violin classes during her college years at MIT at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music.

From 1993 to 1996 Ma had a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. From 1996 to 2001 she was an assistant and associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania. While there she won the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. She became a professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley's Department of Astronomy in 2001.

Ma's research interests are the large-scale structure of the universe, dark matter, and the cosmic microwave background. She led the team that discovered the largest known black holes in 2011.

Ma was the scientific editor in cosmology for The Astrophysical Journal.

Awards and honors

• 1987 – Phi Beta Kappa Society
• 1997 – Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy (American Astronomical Society)
• 1999 – Sloan Research Fellowship
• 2003 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award (American Physical Society)
• 2009 – American Physical Society Fellow
• 2012 – American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
• 2012 – Simons Foundation Fellow
• 2020 – American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member
• 2022 - American Astronomical Society Fellow
• 2022 - National Academy of Sciences Member
• 2024 - Academician, Academia Sinica