Dr. Sarah Pearson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator & Public Speaker

Stellar streams from Pearson et al. 2024

Welcome

Sarah Pearson is an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark DTU, where she runs the Dark Matter Group, funded by an ERC starting grant and a Villum Young Investigator grant. The group focuses on galactic dynamics and stellar streams to constrain dark matter. Pearson has extensive experience giving lectures to both scientific peers and to non-scientific audiences. Follow these links for more details on her Publications, CV (pdf), and Research.


News:
(2026) See Politiken's recent audio, video and written article about my research on dark matter and stellar streams here!
(2026) Big news: I started a new position as a tenured Associate Professor at DTU Space!
(2026) I'm excited to announce the publication of our new paper: Nibauer & Pearson 2026, which makes it possible to test dark matter theories with extragalactic streams using our new X-Stream code.