Jacqueline McCleary, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics, Northeastern University.

Professor Jacqueline McCleary explains how astrophysicists use gravitational lensing between galaxy clusters to explore the nature of elusive dark matter and its interaction with galaxies. She explained this mechanism in a public presentation Using Gravitational Lensing to Detect Dark Matter on January 14, 2025 for Science for the Public's Contemporary Science Issues & Innovations program.

Dr. McCleary is a collaborator in the Local Volume Complete Cluster Survey (LoVoCCS), the Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT), and COSMOS-Web (a JWST collaboration).