Jean P. Brodie

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Jean P. Brodie
Education
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Scientific career
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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

Brodie 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

After 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

In 1990, Brodie was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in astronomy and astrophysics. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Jean P Brodie". Astronomy and Astrophysics. University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Professor Jean Brodie". UCO Lick . Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  3. ↑ "The SLUGGS Survey". Swinburne University of Technology. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  4. ↑ "Collaborators". Hubble Heritage Project . Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  5. ↑ "Jean P. Brodie". International Astronomical Union . Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  6. ↑ "Jean P. Brodie". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
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