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Luisa M. Rebull Rebull@Ipac.Caltech.Edu Caltech/IPAC-IRSA, 100-22 626-395-4565 (Voice) 1200 E Luisa M. Rebull [email protected] Caltech/IPAC-IRSA, 100-22 626-395-4565 (voice) 1200 E. California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125 http://web.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/rebull/ Research Interests: • Observational stellar astronomer, focusing on star formation and the early evolution of young, low-mass stars and their circumstellar disks, rotation rates, and accretion rates, using data from many observatories and wavelength regimes. • Experience with photometry, high- and low-resolution spectroscopy; large databases; infrared, optical, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma-ray data. Education: • Ph. D. Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Aug. 2000. Advisor: Prof. Douglas K. Duncan, Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics. • M. S. Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Dec. 1993. • B. S. Physics, Magna cum Laude, with Highest Honors in Physics, College of William and Mary in Virginia, May 1992. Research Positions Held: At the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center: • Associate Research Scientist, Infrared Science Archive (IRSA), 2015−date • Associate Research Scientist, Spitzer Science Center (SSC), Feb. 2008−date. • Member of the Professional Staff, California Institute of Technology, March 2009−date. • Assistant Research Scientist (50/50 track), SSC, Feb. 2005−Feb. 2008. • Assistant Staff Scientist (20/80 track), SSC, Jan. 2002−Feb. 2005. Prior to Spitzer: • National Research Council Resident Research Associate, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Sept. 2000−Jan. 2002. (Supervisor: Michael Werner.) • Graduate Research Assistant, University of Chicago, Sept. 1992−Sept. 2000. (Ph.D. Advisor: Douglas Duncan) • Summer Research Assistant, CGRO/OSSE team, Naval Research Lab, 1991-1992. Additional Project Positions Held: • Spitzer Archive Scientist, Aug. 2009−date. Work with Spitzer and IRSA staff to develop Spitzer Heritage Archive and other IRSA archives with a similar look. • Director, NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP), Apr. 2009−date. Program partners teachers and astronomers to do research projects. • Spitzer User Support Team, 2009−date and Community Affairs Team, 2006−date. Run proposal calls and other community-related tasks (e.g., Warm Mission Workshop, etc.). • Manager, Spitzer Fellowship Program, 2007−2008. • Deputy Task Lead, Spitzer Observer Support Team, 2004−2006. • Spitzer Observer Support Team, 2002−2004. • Spitzer MIPS Instrument Support Team, 2002−2006. L. M. Rebull – Curriculum Vitae – July 2020 2 Education and Public Outreach (EPO) Experience: • Director and Mentor Scientist, NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP), 2009−date. Director of the program, and mentor for a teacher team (annually) doing archival research. Member of team awarded NASA Group Achievement Award, 2011. • Mentor Scientist, Spitzer Teachers Program, 2005−2009. Mentor for a teacher team (annually) doing Spitzer research. Granted 1 hr DDT Spitzer time in 2005, 11.6 hrs in 2006, and 1.2 hrs in 2008. Member of team awarded NASA Group Achievement Award, 2007. • Member, JPL Speakers Bureau, 2004−2016. • Media Event Resource for JPL Media Relations office, 2001−date. Miscellaneous tasks through on-camera interviews. Reached 10-40 million people in Dec 2003. • Webmaster for Spitzer Science Center (2003-2006), Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago (1994-2000), and for several Centers based there, including Yerkes Observatory (1994-2000), the Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica (CARA, 1994-6, 1998-2000) and the Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes (1999-2000). • Recipient, Donald E. MacMinn Award for Service Beyond the Walls of the University, University of Chicago Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Spring 1998, and University of Chicago President’s Service Award, Spring 1997. • Founding member of Chicago Public Schools/University of Chicago Internet Project (CUIP), University of Chicago, Spring 1996−Dec. 1997. Project to connect inner-city public schools in the University neighborhood to the internet; included working with teachers to incorporate the internet into curriculum. • Founding member of Science Partners, University of Chicago, Aug. 1995−Feb. 1998. Created and moderated one-on-one partnerships between Chicago science graduate students and area teachers for purposes of curriculum development. • Teaching Assistant, the Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica (CARA), University of Chicago, Oct. 1993−Sept. 1994. Designed lessons for and taught physics and astronomy to Chicago inner-city high school students. Professional Society Memberships: • American Astronomical Society (AAS), Oct. 1992−date. • American Physical Society (APS), Oct. 1992−date. • Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), May 1996−date. • Sigma Xi, June 2001−date. • International Astronomical Union (IAU), August 2003−date. Selected Telescopes Used: • Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, SOFIA • Chandra X-ray Telescope, XMM-Newton, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory • Palomar 200'', 60'', 48'' • Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) 4m, 0.9m • United States Naval Observatory (USNO) 40'' (Flagstaff, AZ) • Also fluent with data from: 2MASS, SDSS, POSS, WISE, AKARI, IRAS, … L. M. Rebull – Curriculum Vitae – July 2020 3 Selected Recent Community Service: • Member of AAS Astronomy Education Board, Aug 2015-date • Member of Chandra Users’ Committee (CUC), 2008-2011. • Referee for ApJ, AJ, A&A, MNRAS, EPL, PhysRev: PER, 1999-date. • Time Allocation Committees for various observatories and proposal calls, including Chandra, NASA/ADAP, ROSES, NSF, Palomar, 2005-date. • Deputy SOC Chair for Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun XIV, held November 2006. Selected Recent or Scheduled Talks: 1. Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2022 2. Benjamin Dean Astronomy Lecture, California Academy of Sciences, Aug 5, 2019 3. Invited participant, Weekly Space Hangout, 13 Mar 2019 4. Invited talk, Riverside Astronomical Society, 16 Feb 2019 5. Invited talk, Palomar College Planetarium, 14 Sep 2018 6. Invited talk, Datanauts Kickoff, 20 Aug 2018 7. Contributed talk, COSPAR, 17 July 2018 8. Invited speaker, Ventura County Astronomical Society, 16 March 2018 9. Invited speaker, Houston Astronomical Society, 4 Aug 2017 10. Invited speaker, Los Angeles Astronomical Society Eclipse Event, 21 Aug 2017 11. Invited speaker, Kepler & K2 SciCon IV, 22 Jun 2017 12. Invited speaker and contributed speaker (2 talks), Robotic Telescopes, Student Research, and Education Conference, 20 Jun 2017 13. Invited speaker, ADASS XXVI, Trieste, Italy, 17 Oct 2016 14. Invited speaker, College of the Canyons Fall Star Party, 16 Oct 2015 15. Invited remote lecture, University of Northern Iowa, 23 Feb 2015 16. Invited speaker, WISE at 5 conference, 11 Feb 2015 17. Colloquium, California State University Northridge, 19 Nov 2014 18. Invited speaker, Oort Workshop, Leiden, The Netherlands, 14 May 2014 19. Wallace Herbert Memorial Astronomy Lecture Series, Louisiana Tech, 28 Apr 2014 20. Colloquium, Pomona College, 15 Apr 14 21. Colloquium, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (British Columbia, Canada), 18 Feb 2014 22. Public talk, Antelope Valley Astronomy Club (Palmdale, CA), 11 Apr 2014 23. Invited Review, 400 Years of Stellar Rotation, Natal, Brazil, 21-26 Nov 2013 24. Von Karman Lecture, JPL, 7-8 Nov 2013 25. Contributed talk, GRITS (IPAC), 26 Oct 2013 26. Colloquium, Texas A&M University, 1 May 2013 27. Visiting Tinsley Scholar Colloquium, UT Austin, 30 Apr 2013 Selected Recent or Scheduled Media Events: 1. Several interviews associated with end of Spitzer mission, Jan 2020 2. Spacepod guest, 23 Sep 18 and 5 Feb 2017 3. Spitzer Image Release, “A Space Spider Watches Over Young Stars”, April 2016. 4. Spitzer Image Release, “New View of Family Life in the North America Nebula”, February 2011. 5. Various NITARP-related media events, 2009−date. L. M. Rebull – Publications – July 2020 1 Luisa M. Rebull – Refereed Astronomy Publications 1. Rebull, L., Stauffer, J., Cody, A. M., Hillenbrand, L., Bouvier, J., Roggero, N., David, T., Rotation of Low-Mass Stars in Taurus with K2, 2020, AJ, 159, 273 2. Stauffer, J., Barrado, D., David, T., Rebull, L., Hillenbrand, L., Mamajek, E., Oppenheimer, R., Aigrain, S., Bouoy, H., Lilo-Box, J., Pleiades or Not? Resolving the Status of the Lithium-Rich M Dwarfs HHJ 339 and HHJ 430, 2020, AJ, 160, 30 3. Gillen, E., Hillenbrand, L., Stauffer, J., Aigrain, S., Rebull, L., Cody, A. M., Mon-735: A New Low-Mass Pre-Main-Sequence Eclipsing Binary in NGC 2264, 2020, MNRAS, 495, 1531 4. Sousa, A., Alencar, S., Rebull, L., Espaillat, C., Calvey, N., Teixeira, P., A study of accretion and disk diagnostics in the NGC 2264 cluster, 2019, A&A, 629, 67 5. David, T., Cody, A. M., Hedges, C., Mamajek, E., Hillenbrand, L., Ciardi, D., Beichman, C., Petigura, E., Fulton, B., Isaacson, H., Howard, A., Gagne, J., Saunders, N., Rebull, L., Stauffer, J., Vasisht, G., Hinkley, S., A Warm Jupiter-sized Planet Transiting the Pre- main-sequence Star V1298 Tau, 2019, AJ, 158, 79 6. Guarcello, M., Flaccomio, E., Micela, G., Argiroffi, C., Sciortino, S., Venuti, L., Stauffer, J., Rebull, L., Cody, A. M., CSI 2264: Simultaneous optical and X-ray variability in the pre- main sequence stars of NGC 2264. II. Photometric variability, magnetic activity, and rotation in class III objects and stars with transition disks, 2019, A&A, 628, 74 7. Meng, H., Rieke, G., Kim, Jinyoung Serena, Sicilia-Aguilar, A., Cross, N., Esplin, T., Rebull, L., Hodapp, K., Near-infrared Variability of Low-mass Stars in IC 1396A
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