Brodie, Jean P.

Summary

Jean Brodie is Director, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University, and Distinguished Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Much of her work makes use of the fossil record embodied in globular star clusters (amongst the oldest radiant objects in the universe) to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. Although she is primarily an optical/infrared observer with an instrumentation background, she works closely with theorists, particularly in the areas of stellar populations and simulations of galaxy formation in a cosmological context.
Brodie graduated from Imperial College, University of London, with a First Class Honours degree in Physics, leading to a career in trading refined petroleum products on the International Spot market. After completing her PhD in astronomy at Cambridge University, she was awarded two prestigious post-doctoral research fellowships that she ran consecutively: a Harkness Fellowship at University of California, Berkeley, and a Chambers Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge University. She returned to Berkeley with a career position in the Research Astronomer series and subsequently joined the faculty at the University of California Observatories, headquartered at Santa Cruz.
Brodie has chaired numerous national and international advisory and scientific governance committees and is the founder and CI of a large successful international research group (SAGES: Study of the Astrophysics of Globular Clusters in Extragalactic Systems).

Details

BSc (hons), Imperial Colege, London

Chronology

1980 - 1982

Career position - Harkness Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkley, California, U.S.A.

1981

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Cambridge

1982 - 1984

Career position - Chambers Research Fellow, Girton College; and SERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge

1987 - 1991

Career position - Assistant Professor, University of California Observatories, Santa Cruz, California, U.S.A.

1990

Award - Guggenheim Fellowship

1991 - 1997

Career position - Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of California Observatories, Santa Cruz, California, U.S.A.

1997 -

Career position - Founder and chief investigator, Study of the Astrophysics of Globular Clusters in Extragalactic Systems (SAGES)

1997 - 2017

Career position - Professor, University of California Observatories, Santa Cruz, California, U.S.A.

2017 - 2020

Career position - Distinguished Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California Observatories, Santa Cruz, California, U.S.A.

2020 -

Career position - Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne university of Technology

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