Dr. Lynn Matthews is an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory. Her current research focuses on study of radio emission from evolved, mass-losing stars and on the deployment of new technologies for observational radio astronomy.

Dr. Matthews received a B.A. in Astronomy/Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her previous appointments include a Jansky Fellowship at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and a Clay Fellowship at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, where she remains affiliated as a Research Associate.