Sheperd Doeleman

Shep Doeleman received his B.A. from Reed College in 1986, and left soon after for a year in Antarctica where he conducted multiple space-science experiments at McMurdo Station on the Ross Ice Shelf. With an appreciation for the challenges and rewards of instrumental work in difficult circumstances, he returned to complete a Ph.D. in astrophysics at MIT. Sheperd directs the Event Horizon Telescope project aimed at making the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole. Through Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Shep leads the team that is staring into the center of the Milky Way.