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Abby Lee

Abby Lee is an astrophysicist and NASA Hubble and Miller fellow at UC Berkeley who joined The Traitors: New Blood after completing her doctorate.

Biography

Abby Lee, also known professionally as Abigail Lee, is an astrophysicist and contestant on The Traitors: New Blood. Her research career centres on observing stars and measuring distances beyond our galaxy.

Lee researches stellar populations and cosmic distances while appearing on New Blood.

Known for

The Traitors: New Blood; observational astronomy

Lee researches stellar populations and cosmic distances while appearing on New Blood.[1][8]

Career highlights

  1. Career 1

    Growing up in Minnesota

    Lee grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In her own biography, she lists violin, reading and football among her interests, and shares a photograph of her college soccer team.[4]

  2. Career 2

    Doctoral work in astronomy

    She completed her doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago in May 2025. Her dissertation examined ways to measure the universe’s expansion using distances to other galaxies.[5]

  3. Career 3

    NASA research support

    In 2022, Chicago announced her NASA FINESST grant for a project measuring the Hubble constant with carbon stars. The award supported a research proposal she developed during graduate study.[6]

  4. Career 4

    Research at Berkeley

    Lee joined UC Berkeley as a NASA Hubble and Miller fellow in 2025. Her current work uses near-infrared observations of stars to investigate galaxy evolution and the extragalactic distance scale.[5][7][8]

  5. Career 5

    Joining The Traitors

    NBC introduced Lee as the astrophysicist in its New Blood cast.[1]