Smadar Naoz

Smadar Naoz (סמדר נאוז, born 1978)[1] is an Israeli-American astrophysicist, and was the 2015 winner of the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy for her scientific contributions to the fields of cosmology and planetary dynamics.[2][3]

Smadar Naoz
סמדר נאוז
Born1978 (age 42–43)
EducationPhD, Tel Aviv University, 2010
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Thesis (2010)
Doctoral advisorRennan Barkana

Early life and education

Naoz grew up in Jerusalem Israel, and developed her love for astrophysics at a young age with her mother regularly watching Star Trek: The Original Series with her and her younger sister.[1] She graduated from the Racah Institute at The Hebrew University with her Bachelors of Science (2002) and her Masters in Science (2004), before continuing her education at the Tel Aviv University, where she was awarded her PhD in 2010. The subject of her PhD research was the first generation of galaxies.[1][4]

Career

After obtaining her PhD, Naoz accepted an IAU Gruber postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA). After her tenure as an IAU Gruber postdoc, she became an Einstein Fellow at the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[5]

Naoz is continuing her research, and working as an assistant professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles.[6]

Contributions

Naoz's contributions to the field of astrophysics are varied, as her research interests are not strictly localized. She started her career investigating the formation of the first generation of galaxies following the creation of the universe, contributing to cosmology by trying to piece together early structure formation.[7]

Naoz has been probing the dynamical evolution of Hot Jupiters. She has published many papers in leading scientific journals,[8] including a paper about Hot Jupiters interactions, in the science journal Nature.[9]

Awards
  • Annie Jump Cannon Prize awarded by the American Astronomical Society, 2015[5]
  • Einstein Fellowship awarded by NASA, Sept. 2012[5]
  • The National Postdoctoral Award Program for Advancing Women in Science, awarded by Weizmann Institute of Science, 2009-2011[5]
  • Dan David Prize 2009 scholarship recipient in the field of "Astrophysics – History of the Universe"[10]
  • The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation Fellowship in 2010.[11]
  • School of Physics and Astronomy Award for Outstanding Achievements, awarded by Tel Aviv University, 2006[5]

References
  1. Galit Roichman. "Meet astrophysicist Smadar Naoz (in Hebrew)". Ynet.
  2. Annie J. Cannon Award Committee. "Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy". American Astronomical Society.
  3. Smadar Naoz (22 September 2011). "Astrophysicist Unfolds Mysteries of First Galaxies". Live Science.
  4. The first generation of galaxies and 21 cm fluctuations. OCLC 713757374.
  5. Smadar Naoz (February 2016). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF).
  6. Smadar Naoz (2016). "Welcome to Smadar Naoz's website".
  7. Smadar Naoz. "The First Galaxies in the Universe: the Contribution of Gas".
  8. "Smadar Naoz on google scholar". google scholar. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  9. Naor, Smadar; Farr, Will M.; Lithwick, Yoram; Rasio, Fredrick A.; Teyssandier, Jean (May 12, 2011). "Hot Jupiters from secular planet–planet interactions". Nature. 473 (7346): 187–189. arXiv:1011.2501. doi:10.1038/nature10076. PMID 21562558.
  10. "SCHOLARS 2009". Dan David prize. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  11. "Peter and Patrica Gruber Foundation Fellowship 2010 awarded to Smadar Naoz". International Astronomical Union. 13 April 2010.
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