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Courtney D. Dressing Curriculum Vitae Courtney D. Dressing Astronomy Department University of California at Berkeley Email: [email protected] 501 Campbell Hall #3411 Web: w.astro.berkeley.edu/∼dressing Berkeley, CA 94720-3411 Phone: (510) 642-5275 EDUCATION Ph.D. Harvard University (2015, Astronomy & Astrophysics) Advisor: David Charbonneau Thesis: \The Prevalence and Compositions of Small Planets" A.M. Harvard University (2012, Astronomy & Astrophysics) A.B. Princeton University (2010, Astrophysical Sciences summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi) APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley (2017{present) NASA Sagan Fellow, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology (2015{2017) Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University (Summer 2015) Research Interests Searching for potentially habitable exoplanets orbiting nearby stars. Characterizing planetary systems and their host stars. Testing models of planet formation by exploring the compositional diversity of small planets. Constraining the frequency of planetary systems orbiting low-mass stars. Investigating the dependence of planet occurrence on stellar and planetary properties. Selected Awards, Prizes, and Honors Hellman Fellow, Hellman Family Faculty Fund (2019) Sloan Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2019) NASA Group Achievement Award to the LUVOIR Science & Technology Definition Team (2019) Scialog Fellow, Research Corporation for Science Advancement & Heising-Simons Foundation (2018) Fireman Award for PhD Thesis in Astronomy, Harvard University (2015) NASA Sagan Fellowship (2015) Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (2011, 2012) National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2010{2015) James Mills Peirce Fellowship, Astronomy Department, Harvard University (2010) Princeton Manfred Pyka Memorial Prize in Physics (2007) Successful NASA Proposals As Principal Investigator: K2 Guest Observer Program Cycle 6, \The K2 M Dwarf Project" K2 Guest Observer Program Cycle 6, \Characterizing Small Planets with the HARPS-N Spectrograph" TESS Guest Investigator Program Cycle 1, \Differential Planet Occurrence Rates for Cool Dwarfs" As Co-Investigator & Berkeley PI: ADAP (PI: Akeson), \Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Planet Occurrence Rates: Extending the Kepler Legacy Across a Wide Stellar Parameter Space with K2" (PI: Akeson) K2 Guest Observer Program Cycle 5 (PI: Charbonneau), \Characterizing Small Planets with the HARPS-N Spectrograph" Courtney D. Dressing 2 Advising & Teaching Postdoctoral Fellows Marta Bryan (51 Peg b Fellow at UCB; September 2018{present) Graduate Students Jordan Fleming (3rd yr at UCB; began advising in February 2018) Steven Giacalone (3rd yr at UCB; began advising in October 2017) Andrew Mayo (2nd yr at UCB; began advising in August 2018) Ellianna Schwab Abrahams (2nd yr at UCB; began advising in August 2018) Charles Fortenbach (began advising in May 2017; earned MA in Physics from SFSU in December 2018) Thesis: \A Framework for Optimizing Exoplanet Targets for JWST" Undergraduate Students Elliot Cantor (UCB; September 2017{present) Shashank Dholakia (UCB; May 2018{present) Shishir Dholakia (UCB; May 2018{present) Makena Fetzer (UCB; September 2017{present) Lauren Koch (UCB; October 2017{present) Arjun Savel (UCB; February 2017{present) Alexander Ye (UCB; September 2017{July 2019) Girish Duvvuri (Caltech SURF 2016; co-advised with Heather Knutson) Hieu Nguyen (recent graduate from UCB; 2017{2018) Mentorship Programs Cal-bridge North Mentor (2018{present) Women Mentoring Women Program at Caltech (2015{2017) Harvard Astronomy Graduate Student Peer Mentorship Program (2012{2014) Women in Science, Technology, & Engineering at Harvard Mentorship Program (2010{2015) Classroom Experience & Training Instructor, C12: The Planets (undergraduate course for non-majors, UCB, Spring 2018 & 2019) Instructor, C249: Planetary Astrophysics (graduate course, UCB, Fall 2017 & 2018) Teaching Fellow, Astronomy 16 (introductory astronomy for majors, Harvard, 2011 & 2012) Student, Astronomy 302: Scientists Teaching Science (Harvard, 2013) Professional Activities & Service Missions Voting Member, Large UV/Optical/near-Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) Science & Technology Definition Team (2016{present) Member & LUVOIR Representative, Exoplanet Standards Team (2016{2018) Member, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Follow-Up Working Group (2018{present) Member, TESS Target Selection Working Group (2015{present) Member, TESS M Dwarf Target Selection Subgroup (2015{present) Conferences & Meetings Scientific Organizing Committee Member, Rocky Planets in the Era of JWST: Theory and Observation (2019) Scientific Organizing Committee Member, Celebrating the Legacy of the Spitzer Space Telescope (2019) Scientific Organizing Committee Member, TESS Science Conference (2018{2019) Scientific Organizing Committee Member, Extreme Solar Systems IV (2018{2019) Scientific Organizing Committee Member, New Horizons in Planetary Systems (2018{2019) Organizing Committee Member, Bay Area Exoplanet Meeting (2017{present) Scientific Organizing Committee Member, Sagan Summer Workshop (2017{2018) Co-organizer, Pasadena-Area Astronomy Postdoc Retreat 2016 & 2017 (2015{2017) Courtney D. Dressing 3 Co-organizer, Planetary Discussion Group, Caltech (2015{2016) Organizing Committee Member: Communicating Science 2013 & 2014 (2012{2014) Time Allocation Committees (Various Years) Member, APF TAC for University of California Observatories Proposal reviewer for NASA Hubble Space Telescope Proposal reviewer for NASA Spitzer Space Telescope Member, Keck Galactic TAC for UC Observatories Chair, NASA WIYN TAC for the National Optical Astronomy Observatory Member, NASA WIYN TAC for the National Optical Astronomy Observatory Proposal reviewer for CFHT (2015) University Committees Chair, 51 Pegasi b Nominee Selection Committee, UCB (2018, 2019) Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, UCB Astronomy (2017{present) Member, Departmental Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship Review Committee, UCB Astronomy (2017, 2018) Member, Faculty Advisory Committee to the Lawrence Hall of Science (2018{present) Reviews Proposal reviewer for NASA ADAP (various years) Report reviewer for National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (2017, 2018) Proposal reviewer for NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program (various years) Referee for AJ, ApJ, ApJL, A&A, & MNRAS (2012{present) Undergraduate Poster Judge at AAS (2012{present) External Reviewer, Kepler Planet Occurrence Hack Week (2015) Professional Affiliations Member,American Astronomical Society, Division of Planetary Sciences (2015{present) Member, HARPS-N Science Team (2013{present) Junior Member,American Astronomical Society, Division of Planetary Sciences (2009{2015) Invited Conference Talks 33. \Exo-Earths: Discovery, Demographics, & Characterization," Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, July 17, 2019 32. \M Dwarf Planets: Present and Future," Planet-Star Connections in the Era of TESS and Gaia, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, May 24, 2019 31. \Spotlight Talk: Exoplanets," The Space Astrophysics Landscape for the 2020s and Beyond, Potomac, MD, April 1, 2019 30. \Probing the Frequency of Planetary Systems with Kepler and K2," Kepler & K2 Science Conference V, Glendale, CA, March 4, 2019 29. \LUVOIR: Telling the Story of Life," AAS 233, Seattle, WA, January 8, 2019 28. \Probing Exoplanet Populations with Kepler and Microlensing," AAS 233, Seattle, WA, January 8, 2019 27. \The First Exoplanets Found by TESS," AAS 233, Seattle, WA, January 7, 2019 26. \Ranking Exoplanet Habitability," A Roadmap for Universal Life, Leiden, NL, November 2, 2018 25. \Searching for Pale Blue Dots: The Quest for Habitable Exoplanets," Plenary Talk at the 50th Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN, October 24, 2018 24. \Probing the Compositions of Small Planets with Keck, Kepler/K2, and TESS," Keck Science Meeting, Pasadena, CA, September 21, 2018 23. \Validation of Transiting Systems," Defining the Landscape for Precision Radial Velocity Science in the 2018-2028 Time Frame (invited workshop), Pasadena, CA, August 8, 2018 22. \Exoplanet Distributions for Cool Stars," ExoPAG 18, Cambridge, MA, July 29, 2018 Courtney D. Dressing 4 21. \M Dwarfs: the Treasure Trove of Planets," Astrophysical Frontiers in the Next Decade and Beyond: Planets, Galaxies, Black Holes, and the Transient Universe, Portland, OR, June 26, 2018 20. \Exoplanet Instrumentation for the GSMTs," National Optical Astronomical Observatory Community Needs for Science in the 2020s, Tucson, AZ, February 21, 2018 19. \Exoplanet Science in the 2020s," National Optical Astronomical Observatory Community Needs for Science in the 2020s, Tucson, AZ, February 20, 2018 18. \Occurrence and Frequency Rates of Exoplanetary Systems," Know Thy Star{Know Thy Planet, Pasadena, CA, October 10, 2017 17. \Exploring Planetary Systems Orbiting Cool Dwarfs," Bay Area Exoplanet Meeting, NASA Ames, Mountain View, CA, September 22, 2017 16. \TESSting Theories of the Structure & Evolution of Planetary Systems," TASC3/KASC10, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 16-21, 2017 15. \How Common are Potentially Habitable Planets Orbiting Nearby Stars?," Breakthrough Discuss, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, April 20-21, 2017 14. \Exoplanetary Investigations with HST & JWST,"
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