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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.
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.
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.
Her main research interests are globular star clusters and galaxy formation.
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. Its short name, the SLUGGS Survey, honours the banana slug which is the mascot of UCSC.
She is a collaborator on the Hubble Heritage Project and a member of the International Astronomical Union.
Honors and awards
In 1990, Brodie was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in astronomy and astrophysics.
References
- ^ "Jean P Brodie". Astronomy and Astrophysics. University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ "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.
- Living people
- University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
- Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- Alumni of the University of London
- British astrophysicists
- Women astrophysicists
- 20th-century British physicists
- 20th-century British women scientists
- 21st-century British physicists
- 21st-century British women scientists