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Education: | Stuyvesant High School, NYC: graduated 1979 Princeton University: A. B., Physics, 1983 (Senior Thesis advisor: Joseph Taylor) University of Colorado at Boulder: M.A., Physics, 1985; Ph.D., Physics, 1989 (Dissertation advisor: Richard McCray) |
July 2007 - | Curator, Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History |
July 2007 - | Adjunct Professor, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University |
July 2012 - | Visiting Research Professor, Department of Physics, Drexel University |
July 2007 - June 2012 | Chair, Division of Physical Sciences, American Museum of Natural History |
July 2005 - June 2012 | Curator-in-Charge, Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History |
July 2002 - June 2007 | Associate Curator, Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History |
July 2002 - June 2007 | Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University |
May 1999 - June 2002 | Assistant Curator, Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History |
May 1999 - June 2002 | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University |
September 1995 - April 1999 | Scientist, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie |
January 1994 - August 1995 | Research Associate, Department of Astronomy, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
September 1992 - August 1995 | Research Associate, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago |
January 1991 - August 1992 | Research Associate, Center for Star Formation Studies, University of California at Berkeley |
January 1989 - December 1990 | National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Ames Research Center |
September 1983 - December 1988 | Research Assistant, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado and National Bureau of Standards |
Summer 1984 | Programmer, Space Astronomy Laboratory, University of Wisconsin at Madison |
Summer 1982 | Undergraduate Research Fellow, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology |
Humboldt Research Prize, 2014
Professional Associations :
International Astronomical Union
American Astronomical Society
American Physical Society
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Fields of Interest :
Star Formation, Planet Formation, Structure of the Interstellar Medium and Molecular Clouds, Computational Gas Dynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics
Citizenship: | United States |
Languages: | English (native), German (conversational), French (reading), Spanish (reading) |
"Interactions of Massive Stars with the Interstellar Medium: Bow Shocks and Superbubbles," 1989, Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder.
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I am PI unless otherwise noted.