Dr. Mark Voit is an Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the College of Natural Science at Michigan State University and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He earned his A.B. in astrophysical sciences at Princeton University and his Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Colorado in 1990. Mark continued his studies at the California Institute of Technology, where he was a research fellow in theoretical astrophysics, and then moved on to Johns Hopkins University as a Hubble Fellow. Before going to Michigan State, Voit worked in the Office of Public Outreach at the Space Telescope, where he developed museum exhibitions about the Hubble Space Telescope and helped design NASA’s award-winning HubbleSite.

Dr. Voit’s research interests range from interstellar processes in our own galaxy to the clustering of galaxies in the early universe, and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is married to coauthor Dr. Megan Donahue, and cooks amazing meals for her and their 3 children. He likes getting outdoors whenever possible and particularly enjoys mountain biking, running, canoeing, adventure racing and orienteerin.