Margaret Meixner: Vitae Margaret Meixner: Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information: Space Telescope Science Institute 3700 San Martin Dr. Baltimore, MD 21218 Phone: (410) 338-5013 Fax: (410) 338-3090 Cell: (410) 274-1272 Email: [email protected]
Education: 1987 B.S., Electrical Eng., University of Maryland, College Park, summa cum laude with Honors 1987 B.S. Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, summa cum laude with Honors 1989 M.S. Astronomy, UC Berkeley 1993 Ph.D. Astronomy, UC Berkeley, PhD Advisor, W.J. Welch
Positions Held: 1987-1993 Teaching or Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley 1993-2000 Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2000-2002 Associate Professor, Univeristy of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2002-2007 Associate Astronomer with tenure, Space Telescope Science Institute 2007-2009 Full Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) 2009-2010 Visiting Scientist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 2010 Visiting Scientist at Commissariat s l’energie atomique (CEA)/Saclay, France
Awards:
• AURA Science Achievement Award 2009 for leadership of WHIRC and SAGE • JWST Group Achievement for PDR & NAR Award 2009 • STScI Achievement Award 2004, for Outstanding Functional Work at STScI • Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 2002 • NSF CAREER Award, 1998 • Annie Jump Cannon Special Commendation of Honor, 1994. • UC Berkeley Roberts Prize for excellence in graduate astronomy research, 1993. • Zonta International's Amelia Earhart Fellowship,1987-1989 • University of California Graduate Opportunity Fellowship 1987-1989 • Mortar Board, Omicron Delta Kappa (leadership honors societies) 1985 • Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu (honor societies) 1984-86 • Chancellor's Scholar and Maryland Distinguished Scholar (merit) 1982-86
Professional Affiliations: • American Astronomical Society • Astronomical Society of the Pacific • Inst. for Electronics and Elect. Eng. (IEEE) • American Assoc. of Univ. Women (AAUW) • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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Management Experience: • Instruments Division Deputy 2010-present, STScI, ~100 staff members of astronomers, scientists, research instrument analysts, engineers, mission specialists • Webb Instrument Team Lead 2007-2009, STScI, Instruments Division: team of 16 scientists, 8 research instrument analysts, personnel & project management • PI of WIYN High Resolution infrared camera 2005-2008: team of 5 engineers & 1 student, science team of ~10 scientists, interface work with WIYN/NOAO staff (~5) (URL: www.noao.edu/kpno/WHIRC_instrument.htm) • PI of the SAGE-LMC Legacy Team, 2005-present: 70 scientists covering the globe, (URL: sage.stsci.edu) • PI of the HERSchel Inventory of The Agents of Galaxy Evolution (HERITAGE) in the Magellanic Clouds: 2007-present, 100 scientists postdocs and students over the globe
Instrumentation Experience: • WIYN High Resolution Infrared Camera (WHIRC): Principal Investigator 2002-pres., built as a facility instrument for WIYN on the tip-tilt port. • Near-InfraRed Imager (NIRIM): Principal Investigator 1993-2004, NICMOS 256×256 array sensitive to light of wavelengths 0.8-2.5 µm, used at Mt. Laguna 1 m, Mt. Wilson with University of Illinois adaptive optics system; WIYN telescope • Berkcam, 1987-1993: research assistant , Hughes 10×64 Si:Ga array, was sensitive to light of wavelengths 8-13 µm, responsible for maintenance, leading observing runs at IRTF and UKIRT
Teaching Experience:
Seminars at STScI 2002-pres: I have conducted weekly research discussion groups on circumstellar matter and the SAGE and HERITAGE projects at STScI
Seminar at Harvard-Smithsonian 2009-2010: I led a stellar evolution journal club at Harvard- Smithsonian while on sabbatical
Courses Taught at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1993 to 2002:
Astronomy 132 & 133: New course I designed a new lab course to be taken with the introductory astronomy courses for non-science majors. This course includes naked eye and telescope observations, computer lab exercises and exercises with the Stardial camera. I have taught this course 4 times.
Astronomy 100: Perspectives in Astronomy: introduction to astronomy for non-science majors, a lecture course with no discussion sections. I have taught this course 1 time.
Margaret Meixner: Vitae Astronomy 121 & 122: A two semester sequence introduction to astronomy with lectures and discussion sections. ASTR121: ``The Solar System'' ASTR122: ``Stars and Galaxies'' I have taught each of these courses five times for a total of 10 courses.
Astronomy 210: General Astronomy, an introduction to astronomy for students with a complete physics background. I have taught this course 1 time.
Astronomy 314: Astronomical Techniques, an advanced undergraduate course in modern optical and radio astronomy techniques. I have taught this course 1 time.
Astronomy 403: Observational Astronomy, a graduate course in techniques and basic results in observational astronomy across the electromagnetic spectrum. I have taught this course 1 time.
Astronomy 496IR: Graduate course on infrared astronomy. I have taught this course 1 time.
Astronomy 496ID: Graduate course on interstellar dust. I have taught this course 1 time.
Informal Seminars: Journal Club, Optical/IR research discussions, Evolved star seminars. A seminar each semester for 7 years.
Service Committees between September 2002 and Present (Time at STScI)
External Committees/Service
February 2010- present: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Member at Large council member, elected in 2009
December 2007- present, Chair of the NASA Herschel Users Panel, reports to George Helou, Director of NHSC; this committee is the only advisory committee to the NHSC
March 2010 – present, Member of the Herschel Users Group (centered in Europe)
February 2009: Panel member of the National Science Foundation Advanced Technology and
Margaret Meixner: Vitae Instrumentation proposal selection committee, meeting in Washington, D.C.
2010- present: SOFIA Science Project Council: Member; this council is the highest level science advisory group and reports to the SOFIA project and NASA headquarters.
2008-2009: Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Science Visions working group: Lead of the ISM overview section of the SOFIA Science Vision Book, worked with Tielens and SOFIA project on completing a 20 page contribution to this white paper; 3 weeks of total effort spread over 6 months time.
November 2006-2009: SOFIA Science Steering Committee (SSSC)
December 2007, Hubble Fellowship Review Committee member
June/July 2005: Member of the NASA panel to review Sub-orbital program proposals
August 2003: Co-organizer and main editor for proceedings of the Asymmetrical Planetary Nebula Conference at Mt. Rainier, Washington State
September 2002-present: Member of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) Science team.
STScI/Internal Committees.
2010-2011: New Initiatives Panel - member
2008-2009: Post-tenure review committee
2006-2007 • Science Recruitment Committee - chair
2005-2006 • Science Personnel Committee – member • Institute Fellowship Selection Committee – member • Co-organizer for the Mini-Workshop on Nearby Resolved Debris Disks (w/Kamp who led it) • Chaired a session at Hubble Fellow Symposium
2004-2005
• Science Personnel Committee – member • Science Recruitment Committee - member
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• Mentoring Program – chaired (until December 2004) • RSAC/DDRF review committee - member (until December 2004) • SAR study on the Staff Computing Strategy (SCS): member; also was INS representative in earlier, pre-SAR study • Red Team review for Brown’s TPF-C instrument concept study, held by CMO • Organized monthly lunches for women on tenure track and scientist track.
2003-2004
• Science Personnel Committee – member • ESA hiring: review committee member • STScI graduate student fellowship committee member • RSAC/DDRF review committee: member • STScI Awards committee: member • AURA achievement awards review committee: member • Mentoring program: chaired, I headed the restructuring of the STScI mentoring program created an informative web page for the staff. Conducted two panel discussion: tenure & promotion and tips on proposal writing. Facilitated the matching of mentors and protégés. • IIVC visiting committee Science Staff presentation: chair of group presentation • Organized monthly lunches for women on tenure track and scientist track. • HST Time Allocation Committee support scientist for ISM/stars panel (March 2004).
2002-2003
• Member of Task Force 3 which studied strategy for future missions relevant to STScI • Member of moving to JHU committee which investigated the cost and feasibility of some small set of STScI staff to JHU • Member of new Initiatives Program (CMO)which reviewed new proposals for external funding • Member of Diversity Advisory Panel which reviewed strategies to improve the environment for diversity at STScI • Member of ESA search advisory committee which advised the ESA search on the scientific and functional potential of candidates • Member of Red team for the HST-JWST transition document. • RSAC/DDRF review committee- member • Organize monthly lunches for women on tenure track and scientist track • October 2002: led Hubble Helix Project
Outreach/Popular Talks.
2009-2010 • October 2009: Winn Brook Elementary Class: talk about Hubble Space Telescope
• March 2010: Science Night at Winn Brook Elementary School: 3 hrs, created science demonstration/experiment for 2-4th graders on how a telescope works using Galileo
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• April 2010: Chenery Middle School: Astronomy Night, Demonstration for 6th graders on how a telescope works using the Galileo Telescope
• April 2010: Chenery 6th grade class room; two talks about the Life Cycle of Matter in Galaxies
• April 2010: Career Day at Chenery: Discuss what an astronomer does for a living
2007-2008 • Wrote an article for the Hubble in review 2007 booklet, edited by Bob Brown, entitled, “Progressive Star Formation in the Magellanic Clouds, which highlighted the synergy of HST and Spitzer images in studying star formation
• Appeared on the History Channel’s episode of “The Universe” series on “Nebulae” spoke about different astronomical nebulae
2006-2007
Press Release by the Spitzer Science Center, on SAGE survey image of the LMC (Meixner & SAGE legacy team), http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2006-17/index.shtml This image was featured in the September 4, 2006 issue of Time Magazine, in the December 2006 issue of Sky & Telescope and the Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060904.html as well as half a dozen other web venues.
2005-2006 • Press Release, led by my postdoc, Ben Sugerman on the Science paper on Massive Stars as Major Dust Factories. Spitzer press release: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/happenings/20060608/
2004-2005
• Popular talk to the Baltimore Astronomical Society meeting, March 8 evening. Title: Cosmic Butterflies
• STIC presentation on June 9: Tracing the Life Cycle of Visible Matter
• December 2004, Press Release on ACS/HST Helix Nebula AJ article.
• Jan. 2005: AAS Press Release HST/ACS Image of NGC 346, Infant stars
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2003-2004
• 2004, April Women’s science forum panel • 2003, August, "The Creation of Cosmic Butterflies", STScI Open Night • 2003, September, “Solar System Formation and MIRI Science”, popular talk given to the JWST Project
2002-2003
• April 2003: Astronomy Day Press Release of HST/ACS Helix nebula image, and presentation at the Maryland Science Center
• Meixner, M. 2003, February, "The Creation of Cosmic Butterflies" at the science lunch talk series at STScI
Colloquia or Invited Talks Sept. 2008-Present:
2010:
January AAS: Invited talk at AAS special session on “The Spitzer & SAGE Legacy on the Magellanic Clouds”
February 22: Colloqium at Boston University: “The Life Cycle of Matter in the Magellanic Clouds: Insights from the Spitzer SAGE Surveys.”
April 1: Colloqium at Harvard University: “The Life Cycle of Matter in the Magellanic Clouds: Insights from the Spitzer SAGE Surveys.”
May 4: Contributed Talk at the Herschel First Results Conference at ESTEC (ESLAB 2010): “HERschel Inventory of the Agents of Galaxy Evolution (HERITAGE) in the Magellanic Clouds.: The Large Magellanic Cloud SDP.”
July 22: Invited Talk, COSPAR in Bremmen, Germany: “HERschel Inventory of the Agents of Galaxy Evolution (HERITAGE) in the Magellanic Clouds.: The Large Magellanic Cloud SDP.”
August 12: Colloquim ROE, Edinburgh, UK: “The Life Cycle of Matter in the Magellanic Clouds: Insights from the Spitzer SAGE Surveys.”
Margaret Meixner: Vitae September 24: Invited Talk, Zermatt ISM meeting on Herschel: “Star Formation in the Magellanic Clouds: Insights from Herschel”
August 20: Invited Talk, Why Galaxies Care about AGB stars, II?: “Space Observatory Research of AGB stars: from IRAS to JWST”
October 13: Colloquim at STScI: “The Life Cycle of Matter in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Insights from the Spitzer SAGE and Herschel HERITAGE Surveys.”
November 15: Colloquim at Brown University: “The Life Cycle of Matter in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Insights from the Spitzer SAGE and Herschel HERITAGE Surveys.”
2009:
January AAS Meeting in Long Beach: Two Invited presentations
AAS Special Session on SOFIA Science Vision: Gave overview talk on the ISM science visions paper
AAS Special Session Panel member on Far-Infrared Space Observatories
February 27: Spitzer/IPAC lunch talk: “Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud: Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy’s Evolution (SAGE).”
April European Talk Tour: “Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud: Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy’s Evolution (SAGE).”
NOVA lecturer in The Netherlands: April 20: University of Groningen April 22: University of Leiden April 24: CEA/Saclay: Instrument Control Center for Herschel Mission April 27: University of College London
May 25: Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud: Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evoltution, at the symposium to honor Giovanni Fazio on his 75 birthday
Dec. 18: Contributed Talk at Herschel Initial Results Conference in Madrid, Spain: “HERschel Inventory of the Agents of Galaxy Evolution (HERITAGE) in the Magellanic Clouds.”
Margaret Meixner: Vitae 2008:
September 23: Colloquim at Goddard Space Flight Center: “Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud: Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy’s Evolution (SAGE).”
September 3: Telecon Talk to the SOFIA science task force telecon (40 minutes) about SAGE and HERITAGE and prospects for SOFIA followup
1. Colloquim at University of Maryland, December 12, 2007: Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy’s Evolution (SAGE)
2. Colloquim at University of Pennsylvania, January 16, 2008: Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy’s Evolution (SAGE)
3. Colloquim at Heidelberg University, April 29, 2008: Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy’s Evolution (SAGE)
4. Invited talk for the NASA/AMES SOFIA group, June 18, 2008: The Interstellar Medium in the Nearby Universe: SOFIA Science Vision Ideas
5. Colloquim at the National Science Foundation on June 16, 2008, “The Performance of the WIYN High Resolution Infrared Camera”
Post-Doctoral Scientists, Students, and staff Supervised in Research
Post-Doctoral Scientists:
• Dr. Angela Speck, June 1999-2002, Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Physics at University of Missouri, Columbia • Dr. Ben Sugerman, September 2003-2006, Assistant Professor at Goucher College • Dr. Uma Vijh, September 2005 – 2007, Research professor at University of Toledo • Dr. Natasza Siomiak, January 2006 – 2007, Research Staff at Copernicus Institute in Torun, Poland • Dr. Marta Sewilo, March 2007 – 2010, working on SAGE project, data base and star formation, Research Staff at Johns Hopkins Univeristy • Dr. Ben Sargent, Nov. 2009-pres, working on SAGE-Spec, dust minerology AGB mass loss grid • Dr. Masaaki Otsuka, June 2009-pres., working on SEEDS project, dust production in Supernovae, SAGE and HERITAGE • Dr. Jonathan Seale, September 2010-pres., star formation in Magellanic Clouds, SAGE & HERITAGE
Graduate Students: • PhD Thesis Students
Margaret Meixner: Vitae o Rolaine Young Owl, Ph.D. 1999, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Assistant Professor, Cal State Long Beach o Toshiya Ueta, Ph.D. 2002, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Assistant Professor at University of Denver. o Dave Fong, Ph.D. 2003, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Assistant Professor at Olympia College o Ryan Doering, Ph.D. 2008, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Postdoctoral Researcher with Shenais at University of Wisconsin, project on near-IR spectrograph for SALT o Lynn Carlson, Ph.D. candidate, 2005-2010, Johns Hopkins University, will defend Sept. 2010, postdoc in Leiden with Xander Tielens o Sundar Srinivasan, Ph.D. candidate, 2006-2009., Johns Hopkins University, defended Oct. 19, 2009, now a postdoc at the IAP in Paris, France o David Riebel, Ph. D. candidate, 2008-pres, Johns Hopkins University • Summer or 1st year projects o Tim O'Hara, PhD student, 2001-2003, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign o Mike Campbell, Masters student, 2000-2002, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign o Amanda Maxham, Masters student, 2001-2002, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign o Minho Son, JHU Physics, summer 2004 o Yong Chen, JHU, summer 2004 o Corrine Lamb, JHU, summer 2004 o SoYoung Kim, JHU, summer 2005
Undergraduate Students:
• Mike Campbell, Physics, 1997, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, • Tony Marcotte, Pre-Med, 1999, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, • Jason Davis, Astronomy, 2000, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, planetarium work • Phil Swanson, Astronomy, 2002, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, • Danielle Moser, Engineering, 2002, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, • Lukas Pyzowski, Physics/Philosophy, 2004, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, • Chris Busbey, computer science, 2003, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, • Angela Zalucha, physics/astronomy, 2002-2003, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, graduate student at MIT • Joel Hartman, STScI summer student 2003, NICMOS imaging of Helix, Harvard Grad. student • Khee Gan Lee, STScI summer student 2004, 2-Dust modeling, Princeton Grad. student • Cecelia Hedrick, STScI summer student 2005, 2-Dust modeling, JPL intern • Carrie Gill, STScI summer student 2006, SAGE project, Finding Taurus • Morgan Dwyer, STScI summer student 2007, SAGE project, YSOs • Krista Romita, STScI summer student 2008, 2009, intern in 2010, SAGE project, deep photometry of YSOs
High School Students:
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• David Portnoy, summer 2004, Stuyveston HS, NY, NIRIM imaging of Herbig Ae/Be stars
Research Instrument Analysts:
• Sherrie Holfeltz, ACS/ Coronagraphy project • Megan Sosey, support for the 2Dust code maintenance, WHIRC data processing
Engineers:
• Todd Miller, software engineering lead for the WHIRC system • Steve Smee, WHIRC lead engineer, and thermal/mechanical engineer • Robert Barkhouser, optical engineer for WHIRC • Joe Orndoff, electrical engineer for WHIRC • Gregg Scharfstein, mechanical engineer for WHIRC • Bernie Shiao, database programmer for SAGE • Alberto Conti, web interface for SAGE project