Grant Tremblay

Grant Tremblay (born March 13, 1984) is an American astrophysicist notable for research on supermassive black holes, science communication, and public advocacy for large space telescopes. He is currently an Astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and was formerly a NASA Einstein Fellow at Yale University, a Fellow at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and an Astronomer at ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT).

As of 2022, Tremblay is Vice President of the American Astronomical Society, a member of the NASA Astrophysics Advisory Committee, and chair of the executive committee for NASA's Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group (PhysPAG). He is an author on more than 100 peer-reviewed publications on star formation and supermassive black holes as well as books for the general public including ''Light from the Void: Twenty Years of Discovery with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory'' and ''What do Black Holes Eat for Dinner?''.

Tremblay has appeared as a main cast member on various science documentary series including ''How the Universe Works'', and has given numerous presentations at universities, schools, and science festivals. He is head of the ''Lynx X-ray Observatory'' Science Study Office, and is a public advocate for a new fleet of Great Observatories following release of the 2020 Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics. In 2020 he founded the [https://www.greatobservatories.org New Great Observatories] community coalition to advocate for that fleet amongst stakeholders, U.S. policymakers, and the global public. Provided by Wikipedia