Megan is an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute. She works as a research astronomer and as an archive scientist for the Multiwavelength Archive of Space Telescope (MAST). Megan’s research is mainly on clusters of galaxies and what they tell about the contents of the universe. Megan grew up in Nebraska and received her bachelor’s degree from MIT and her PHd from the University of Colorado. Her thesis won the 1993 Trumpler Award from the Astronomical Society for the Pacific for an outstanding astrophysics doctoral dissertation in North America. She also studied at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California and later as an STScI Institute Fellow at Space Telescope. Megan became a professor at Michigan State university, has run marathons and has three children.