Alyssa A. Goodman
| Alyssa A. Goodman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Alyssa Ann Goodman July 1, 1962 New York City, New York, United States |
| Residence | Lexington, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Astronomy |
| Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University |
| Thesis | Interstellar Magnetic Fields: An Observational Perspective (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Irwin I. Shapiro |
| Other academic advisors | Charles R. Alcock[1] |
| Notable awards | Newton Lacy Pierce Prize |
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Website Official website | |
Alyssa Ann Goodman (born July 1, 1962 in New York City)[2] is an American professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution, and the founding director of the Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing.[3]
Career
Goodman's research is conducted at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she studies the dense gas between stars. In particular, her research interest is on how interstellar gas arranges itself into new stars.
Goodman is also a principal investigator of the COMPLETE Survey of Star-Forming Regions,[4] which maps out three large star-forming regions in the galaxy in their entirety.
From 2008 to 2009, Goodman was a "Scholar-in-Residence" at WGBH, while on sabbatical. She has also worked closely with Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay on the Microsoft WorldWide Telescope project.[5]
Education
A native of New York, Goodman attended Herricks High School in New Hyde Park, New York. She later received her B.S. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984. She then continued her education at Harvard University receiving a Ph.D also in Physics in 1989.
Honors
- Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy from the American Astronomical Society (1997)
References
- ↑ "Alumni/ae Notes" (PDF). Physics@MIT Journal (Fall 2001). 2001.
- ↑ Goodman, Alyssa (February 2010). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Harvard University. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
- ↑ Reid, Rosalind. "Initiative in Innovative Computing". Harvard University. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
- ↑ Goodman, Alyssa (19 Sep 2011). "The COordinated Molecular Probe Line Extinction Thermal Emission Survey of Star Forming Regions". Harvard University. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
- ↑ "A look at the editors: Alyssa Goodman". The Fourth Paradigm. Nov 8, 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2013.