Jean P. Brodie is a British astrophysicist. She is professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and an astronomer at the Lick Observatory.[1][2]
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Education
editBrodie has a B.Sc. from the University of London and a Ph.D. from Emmanuel College, Cambridge and the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.[2]
Career
editAfter her doctorate at Cambridge, Brodie became a post-doctoral fellow at University of California, Berkeley (1980–82), then a research fellow at Girton College, Cambridge and the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge (1982–84), and returned to UCB as an assistant research astronomer (1984–87). She took up a post of assistant professor/astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1987, and became associate professor/astronomer there in 1991 and professor/astronomer in 1997.[1]
Her main research interests are globular star clusters and galaxy formation.[1]
She founded the international research network Study of the Astrophysics of Globular Clusters in Extragalactic Systems (SAGES), from which developed the SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS Survey.[3] Its short name, the SLUGGS Survey, honours the banana slug which is the mascot of UCSC.[1]
She is a collaborator on the Hubble Heritage Project[4] and a member of the International Astronomical Union.[5]
Honors and awards
editIn 1990, Brodie was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in astronomy and astrophysics.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Jean P Brodie". Astronomy and Astrophysics. University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ a b "Professor Jean Brodie". UCO Lick. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ "The SLUGGS Survey". Swinburne University of Technology. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ "Collaborators". Hubble Heritage Project. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ "Jean P. Brodie". International Astronomical Union. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ "Jean P. Brodie". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 1 June 2019.