Jean P. Brodie

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]

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]

In 1990 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in astronomy and astrophysics.[3] She is a member of the International Astronomical Union.[4]

Career

After her doctorate at Cambridge, Brodie was 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.[5] 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.[6]

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


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