Lindsay Glesener | |
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 Glesener in 2016 | |
| Alma mater | San Francisco State University University of California, Berkeley |
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| Institutions | University of Minnesota |
| Thesis | Faint Coronal Hard X-rays From Accelerated Electrons in Solar Flares (2012) |
Lindsay Erin Glesener is a professor in the Institute for Astrophysics at the University of Minnesota . She is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award researcher and lead investigator on the FOXSI Sounding Rocket.
Glesener grew up near Lake Superior. [1] After Glesener graduated from high school she worked briefly as a ballet dancer. [2] Glesener completed her bachelor's degree at San Francisco State University, graduating in 2006. [3] She joined the University of California, Berkeley for her graduate studies, earning a Masters in 2009 and a PhD in 2012. Her thesis, Faint Coronal Hard X-rays From Accelerated Electrons in Solar Flares, was supervised by Robert Lin and Säm Krucker. [4] [5] Whilst a PhD student she wrote for the Berkeley Science Review. [6] For her thesis she was awarded the Tomkins Instrumentation Thesis Prize from the Royal Astronomical Society. [7] Her graduate work focussed on building a payload known as the FOXSI Sounding Rocket. [8]
She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley for two years before joining the University of Minnesota in 2014. [2] She was promoted to assistant professor in 2015. [3] She was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to expand the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Minnesota. [9]
Glesener is the PI of the FOXSI Sounding Rocket. [10] [11] FOXSI detects Hard X-rays which are a signature of extraordinarily hot solar material. [12] The rocket payload flew in 2014, using a Solar Aspect and Alignment System and Hard X-rays Spectroscopy to obtain focussed images of the sun. [13] She also works on small CubeSats. [1] [10] In 2017 Glesener identified that nanoflares (small explosions) in the plasma of the sun may cause the scalding temperatures in the solar corona. [14]
In 2018 she was awarded an NSF Career Award, allowing her to link high-energy solar and astrophysics. [15] [16] FOXSI 3 launched on August 21, 2018. [17] Glesener wants to identify how particles are accelerated in the most high-energy events that occur in the sun, including explosions, flares and plasma ejections. [18]
Glesener has given invited talks at academic conferences and colleges. [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] She is on the Solar Physics Division committee of the American Astronomical Society. [24]
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