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Appendix Q: Committee and Panel Biographical Information
Appendix Q: Committee and Panel Biographical Information
Pages 568-604
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In 2015, Dr. Harrison was awarded the Bruno Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society, and in 2016 she won the Harrie Massey Award from the Committee on Space Research.
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Sloan Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for beginning faculty, a NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Wyckoff Faculty Fellowship through the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, the Mohler Prize from University of Michigan, and the Beatrice Tinsley Prize from the AAS.
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Dr. Kamionkowski is a theoretical physicist who specializes in cosmology, with contributions in dark matter, dark energy, the cosmic microwave background, the early universe, and physical cosmology, along with other areas of astrophysics.
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Prior to joining STScI, she was a Hubble Fellow at the University of Maryland and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and a Jansky Fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
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These major programs included the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series (GOES-R) weather satellites; Juno; Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)
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He has received numerous awards, including the Marc Aaronson Memorial Prize, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Pastoor Schmeitz Prize.
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in physics and astronomy from the University of Milano Bicocca. JULIE McENERY is a senior scientist of high-energy astrophysics at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University. His areas of research expertise include the mechanism of core-collapse supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, superluminous supernovae, heavy element nucleosynthesis, magnetars, and wide-field transient surveys; star formation, feedback, galactic winds, cosmic rays, and nonthermal emission from galaxies; and binary systems, compact objects, and few-body dynamics.
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, and she is working on upcoming surveys, including the LSST, Euclid, and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. She is serving a 2-year term as spokesperson of the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC)
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Surveyor Mission Concept Study, AURA Space Telescope Institute Council, and Euclid Science Consortium/Co-I of Euclid Science Program: Precision Studies of Galaxy Growth and Cosmology.
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Previous positions include postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory and NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Some of Dr. Stern's recent awards are the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, the NASA Group Achievement Award to the NuSTAR Science Team, and the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal.
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Previously, Dr. Crossfield was a NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow at UC, Santa Cruz, in the Department of Astronomy and at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.
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She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas, Austin, where she was named outstanding early-career researcher, and she is recipient of a NASA Early Career Fellowship and the Eric R Immel Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Georgia Tech College of Science.
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Stark was a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and a Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carnegie Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. He earned his Ph.D.
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She was awarded the NSF CAREER Award in 2010 and became a fellow of the AAAS and a Guggenheim Fellow.
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Marie Curie Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, a STEREO senior scientist and research associate at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast. He is a recipient of the NSF Faculty CAREER Award.
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Warner Prize, the Bart Bok Prize, the AAS Second Century Lecturer, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Shaw Prize in Astrophysics, the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, and shared the Gruber Prize as a member of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) science team.
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She is a recipient of the Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship, Alfred P Sloan Fellowship in Physics, and the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.
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BERNARD J RAUSCHER is an experimental astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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At JPL, she served as the PI for the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission, which is a NASA spacecraft dedicated to observing near-Earth asteroids and comets using a thermal infrared space telescope.
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in astrophysics from the University of British Columbia. GEORGE SONNEBORN was an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, with 37 years of experience in design, development, and operation of space telescopes.
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. He is affiliated with the AAS High Energy Astrophysics Division, the APS Astrophysics Division, the AAAS, the American Association of University Professors, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Kouveliotou was a senior technologist for High-Energy Astrophysics at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. She earned her Ph.D.
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Dr. Stacey also is collaborating with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the construction of the High-Resolution Mid-Infrared Spectrometer (HIRMES)
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Dr. Heckman's research interests include galaxy evolution, starbursts, black holes, and active galactic nuclei.
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She received the NSF CAREER award in 2015 for her research on "Probing the Demographics of Supermassive Black Holes with Time-Domain Observations of Tidal Disruption Events." Dr. Gezari received her Ph.D.
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Areas of research include gravitational waves and particle astrophysics, with a focus on the detection, characterization, and astrophysical interpretation of short-duration gravitational wave signals that are produced by cataclysmic astrophysical events such as the collisions of black holes and neutron stars, or core collapse supernovae.
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ELIZABETH A HAYS is a research astrophysicist and the chief of the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Arce was an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics postdoctoral fellow at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and a postdoctoral researcher in the Owens Valley Radio Observatory millimeter array group at Caltech in Pasadena. He has served on
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Dr. Arce is the recipient of a NSF CAREER award.
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He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and, as a member of the EHT collaboration, the NSF Diamond Achievement Award, and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
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Dr. Boyd serves as the chief of the Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory and as project scientist for the TESS mission at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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in astronomy at Indiana University. She has previously served on the Board of Physics and Astronomy, the Division Committee on Engineering and Physical Sciences, and the Report Review Committee at the National Academies, and was co–vice chair of the 2010 decadal survey.
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JANE R RIGBY is an astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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KEIVAN G STASSUN, see steering committee entry above.
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