Curriculum Vitae

DR.LAURA L.WATKINS

CURRICULUM VITAE

Email [email protected] Address Space Telescope Science Institute Website http://www.stsci.edu/∼lwatkins 3700 San Martin Drive ORCID 0000-0002-1343-134X Baltimore, MD 21218, USA Github lauralwatkins Phone +1 410 338 2443 Nationality British

EMPLOYMENT

10/2019 - present ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore ESA/AURA Astronomer 05/2021 - present: Acting Deputy Head of the Science Mission Office 10/2019 - 05/2021: SCIG & SPG Scientist, Science Mission Office 03/2019 - 09/2019 Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna ERC Fellow European Southern Observatory, Garching Visiting Associate 10/2018 - 02/2019 European Southern Observatory, Garching ERC Fellow 09/2013 - 09/2018 Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore HSTPROMO Postdoc, working with Roeland van der Marel 10/2010 - 09/2013 Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg Dynamics Postdoc, working with Glenn van de Ven

EDUCATION

10/2006 - 09/2010 Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge PhD in Astronomy: Tracer Populations in the Local Group Supervisors: Wyn Evans and Vasily Belokurov PhD date: 30 April 2011 10/2002 - 06/2006 Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge MSci First Class Honours - Natural Sciences (Astrophysics) Project: Weak Lensing in Galaxy Clusters Supervisor: Lindsay King. MA First Class Honours - Natural Sciences (Astrophysics)

RESEARCH INTERESTS Internal dynamics of low mass systems, (discrete) dynamical modelling, proper motions, astrometry, Hubble Space Telescope, Gaia, globular clusters, dwarf spheroidal galaxies, intermediate-mass black holes, the Local Group, dark matter, satellite populations, galactic dynamics, Bayesian inference. CURRICULUM VITAE DR.LAURA L.WATKINS

FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES Member of Science Policies Group, coordinator for HST Time Allocation Committee, coordinator of HST Call for Proposals documents, SMO contact for and ex-officio member of Prize and STScI Fellowship Selection Commit- tees, SMO contact for and executive committee for Space Astronomy Summer Program.

AWARDS AND HONOURS

PRIZES 2013 Ohio State University CCAPP Fellowship (declined) 2006-2010 PPARC/STFC studentship 2006-2010 Gonville and Caius Rhonda Scholarship 2006 Gonville and Caius Physics Prize 2004,2005 Gonville and Caius Senior Scholarship 2003 Gonville and Caius Junior Scholarship

THEORY PROPOSALS, ARCHIVAL PROPOSALS & GRANTS 2021 CoI AR-16625 (HST Archival, $TBD, PI McKinnon & Apfel) 2018 CoI AR-15633 (HST Archival Legacy, $394k, PI del Pino Molina) 2017 ? PI AR-15055 (HST Theory, $149k) 2015 ? PI AR-14322 (HST Theory, $143k)

OBSERVING PROPOSALS 2021 CoI GO-16737 (HST, 20 orbits, PI Sohn & del Pino Molina) 2020 CoI GO-16298 (HST, SNAP 44 targets, PI Libralato) 2020 CoI GO-16274 (HST, 15 orbits, PI Sohn & Fardal) 2020 CoI GO-16273 (HST, 48 orbits, PI Sohn) 2019 CoI 0104.B-0296 (VLT/MUSE, 18h, PI Kacharov) 2019 CoI GO-15911 (HST, 20 orbits, PI del Pino Molina) 2018 CoI 0102.D-0164 (VLT/FLAMES, 14.8h, PI Gieles) 2018 CoI 0101.D-0385 (VLT/NACO, 9.5h, PI Libralato) 2017 CoI 60.A-9181 (VLT/MUSE SV, 1.1h, PI Alfaro-Cuello) 2017 CoI GO-15173 (HST, 5 orbits, PI Kalirai) 2015 CoI GO-14235 (HST, 42 orbits, PI Sohn) 2015 CoI GO-14155 (HST, 5 orbits, PI Kalirai) 2015 CoI 095.B-0585 (VLT/MUSE, 10h, PI Lutzgendorf)¨ 2010 ? PI I/2010B/09 (INT/WFC, 5 nights) 2010 CoI 085.B-0567 (VLT/FORS2, 30h, PI Fellhauer) 2009 CoI 083.B-0269 (VLT/FORS2, 17h, PI Fellhauer) 2008 CoI 082.B-0684 (VLT/FORS2, 30h, PI Fellhauer)

SUPERVISING,MENTORINGAND TEACHING

PRIMARY SUPERVISOR 2020 Allison Erena (STScI Space Astronomy Summer Program & National Astronomy Consortium) 2019 Tadeja Versiˇ cˇ (ESO Student Internship) 2015 A.T. Baldwin (STScI Space Astronomy Summer Program) CURRICULUM VITAE DR.LAURA L.WATKINS

CO-SUPERVISOR 2019-present Tadeja Versiˇ cˇ (Graduate student, UVienna) 2019 Matt Wilkinson (ESO Summer Research Program) 2017-present Danielle Rowland (STScI Space Astronomy Summer Program & National Astronomy Consortium) 2011-2015 Alex Budenbender¨ (Graduate student, MPIA)

MENTOR 2020-present Mentor in STScI Postdoc Mentoring program 2018-2019 Mentor in ESO Student Mentoring program

SMALL-GROUP TEACHING 2006-2009 Supervisor: Part 1A Natural Sciences Mathematics for Gonville and Caius College.

RELEVANT SKILLS,EXPERIENCEAND SERVICE

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Member of the International Astronomical Union Member of the American Astronomical Society Member of the AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy

ASTRONOMICAL COMMUNITY SERVICE Referee for Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Referee for American Astronomical Society Journals Referee for Astronomy & Astrophysics Referee for Nature Astronomy Peer review for Polish National Science Centre Peer review for Science and Technology Facilities Council HST Time Allocation Committee (Cycle 27) AAS DDA Dirk Brouwer Career Award Committee (2018, 2019, Chair 2020) Panel support staff for JWST Time Allocation Committee (Early Release Science) Panel support staff for HST Time Allocation Committee (Cycles 22, 23 & 24) Panel support staff for HST Financial Review Committee meeting (Cycle 24) Panel support staff for ESO Observing Programme Committee (Period 104)

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION 2018 SOC Chair for Science With Precision Astrometry, Baltimore, MD USA 2012 LOC for Dynamics Meets Kinematics Tracers workshop, Ringberg, Germany

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE 2020 Member of ESA-AURA Hiring Committee 2019-2020 Member of HSTPROMO Hiring Committee 2019-2020 Chair Prize Fellowship Selection Committee 2019- STScI Postdoctoral Fellows Hiring Coordination Committee 2019- STScI Research Computing Forum 2019 Co-creator of Vienna Dynamics Group website 2019 Co-organiser of ESO Science Day 2018-2019 Coordinator for ESO Summer Research Programme website CURRICULUM VITAE DR.LAURA L.WATKINS

2015-2018 STScI Postdoc Representative 2017 STScI Security Impacts Advisory Committee 2016 Co-organiser of STScI Postdoc Jamboree 2015-2016 Co-organiser for STScI Colloquium series 2014-2015 Co-organiser for STScI/JHU CoolSci/HotSci series 2012-2013 Website manager of the MPIA Dynamics group 2012-2013 Organiser for the MPIA Dynamics group meetings 2012 Co-organiser of MPIA GC Retreat 2006-2010 Website manager of the IoA Stellar Populations group 2007-2009 Co-organiser for the IoA Stellar Populations Group meetings 2006-2007 Co-organiser for the IoA Student Seminar series

COLLABORATIONS & WORKING GROUPS HSTPROMO: High-resolution Space Telescope PROper MOtion Collaboration JWST Telescope Scientist Team: member of the Local Group Proper Motion Science Project Gaia Challenge: member of Spherical/Triaxial Systems and Collisional Systems working groups GC-squared: Globular Clusters with Gaia Community Theia Consortium: member of dark matter working group for the Theia Space Mission Project DYNAMITE: DYNamics And Metallicity Indiciators Tracing Evolution Collaboration

COURSES AND WORKSHOPS 2021 Unconscious Bias Training (STScI) 2020 Bystander Intervention Training (Hollaback/STScI) 2017 Concrete Steps to Make Your Workplace More Inclusive (STScI) 2017 Respect and Inclusion Series (Workplace Answers/AURA) 2017 Coaching and Mentoring (Workplace Answers/AURA) 2017 Project Management Essentials (Franklin Covey/STScI) 2016 LGBTQ+ SafeZone training (Johns Hopkins University) 2012 Writing in the Sciences (Stanford University, Coursera online course) 2007 Supervising and small group teaching (University of Cambridge)

PROGRAMMING AND SCRIPTING LANGUAGES Python, LaTeX, git, github, C, IDL, PHP, HTML, CSS, basic Fortran, basic MySQL

LANGUAGES Native English speaker, basic conversational German, basic conversational Spanish

TALKSAND CONFERENCES

2021/05 Conference AAS DDA 52nd Annual Meeting Virtual (Talk) CURRICULUM VITAE DR.LAURA L.WATKINS

2019/09 Workshop Gaia Challenge V Paris, France 2019/06 Conference EWASS SS23: The Dynamics of Stellar Clusters: Simulations and Observations at Low/High Redshifts Lyon, France (Invited Talk) 2019/05 Conference IAUS 351 & MODEST 19: Star Clusters: from the Milky Way to the Early Universe Bologna, Italy (Talk) 2019/04 Coffee Talk ESO, Garching, Germany 2019/03 Coffee Talk ESO, Garching, Germany 2019/03 Seminar STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA 2019/02 Colloquium IoA, Cambridge, UK 2019/01 Coffee Talk ESO, Garching, Germany

2018/11 Conference Survival of Dense Star Clusters in the Milky Way System Heidelberg, Germany (Invited Talk) 2018/10 Meeting Population Dynamics Retreat Riquewihr, France 2018/08 Conference IAU GA S348: 21st Century Astrometry: Crossing the Dark and Habitable Frontiers Vienna, Austria (Invited Talk) 2018/07 Coffee Talk STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA 2018/05 Meeting Globular Clusters with Gaia Community ISSI, Bern, Switzerland 2018/03 Conference Science with Precision Astrometry Baltimore, MD, USA (SOC Co-Chair) 2018/01 Meeting Globular Clusters with Gaia Community ISSI, Bern, Switzerland

2017/06 Conference AAS DDA Annual Meeting London, UK (Invited Talk) 2017/05 Coffee Talk STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA 2017/02 Conference The Exciting Lives of Galactic Nuclei Ringberg, Germany (Invited Talk)

2016/10 Workshop Gaia Challenge IV Stockholm, Sweden (Talk) 2016/09 Conference MODEST 16 NYC: Gas and Gravitational Dynamics New York, NY, USA (Talk) 2016/08 Coffee Talk STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA 2016/04 Conference MODEST 16: Star Clusters as Cosmic Laboratories Bologna, Italy (Talk) 2016/03 Conference Mayacamas Astrophysics 2016 Calistoga, CA, USA (Invited Talk) 2016/03 Colloquium Harvard CfA, Cambridge, MA, USA 2016/02 Meeting STScI Postdoc Jamboree Baltimore, MD, USA 2016/01 Coffee Talk STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA

2015/10 Colloquium Texas A&M Mitchell Institute, College Station, TX, USA 2015/09 Workshop Gaia Challenge III Barcelona, Spain (Talk) 2015/07 Seminar Surrey Astrophysics, Guildford, UK 2015/06 Conference Local Group Astrostatistics Ann Arbor, MI, USA (Talk) 2015/01 Conference Black Holes in Dense Stellar Systems Aspen, CO, USA (Talk)

2014/11 Seminar MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany 2014/10 Workshop Gaia Challenge II Heidelberg, Germany (Talk) 2014/08 Seminar STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA 2014/07 Seminar IoA, Cambridge, UK 2014/02 Coffee Talk STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA 2014/01 Meeting 223rd Meeting of the AAS National Harbor, MD, USA (Talk) CURRICULUM VITAE DR.LAURA L.WATKINS

2013/12 Seminar MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany 2013/08 Workshop Gaia Challenge I Guildford, UK (Talk) 2013/08 Colloquium Konigstuhl¨ Colloquium, Heidelberg, Germany 2013/08 Meeting Dynamical Modelling of the Milky Way Heidelberg, Germany (Talk) 2013/06 Conference Small Stellar Systems Prato, Italy (Talk) 2013/06 Seminar SFB881 collaboration; ARI, Heidelberg, Germany 2013/02 Colloquium Strasbourg Observatory, Strasbourg, France 2013/01 Meeting 221st Meeting of the AAS Long Beach, CA, USA (Poster)

2012/11 Meeting MPIA GC Retreat Lobbach, Germany (SOC & Talk) 2012/11 Seminar MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany 2012/04 Workshop Dynamics Meets Kinematic Tracers Ringberg, Germany (LOC & Invited Talk) 2012/02 Conference First Light and Faintest Dwarfs Santa Barbara, CA, USA (Poster)

2011/10 Meeting MPIA GC Retreat Neuwied, Germany (Talk) 2011/09 Meeting Astronomische Gesellschaft Heidelberg, Germany 2011/07 Seminar IAC, Tenerife 2011/04 Conference Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way Le Grand-Bornand, France (Talk)

2010/11 Seminar MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany 2009/09 Conference Milky Way: Now and in the Gaia Era Heidelberg, Germany (Poster) 2008/03 Conference Galactic Structure and Structure of Galaxies Ensenada, Mexico 2007/08 School The Milky Way Galaxy: Dynamics–Evolution–Matter Cycle Heidelberg, Germany 2007/05 Conference The Milky Way Halo – Stars and Gas Bonn, Germany (Poster)

MEDIA &PRESS COVERAGE

2020 ESA TV: Live discussion to celebrate Hubble’s 30th anniversary 2019 CNN: How much weight would the Milky Way weigh if the Milky Way could be weighed? 2019 The Guardian: Scientists discover what the Milky Way weighs 2019 ESA Hubble Press Release: Hubble & Gaia accurately weigh the Milky Way 2019 NASA Hubble Press Release: What Does the Milky Way Weigh? Hubble and Gaia Investigate 2019 ESA News Story: Gaia clocks new speeds for Milky Way-Andromeda Collision 2018 Science News: Gaia delivers a trove of data revealing secrets of the Milky Way

OBSERVING EXPERIENCE

2010/09 INT/WFC 5 nights, photometry of BHBs near the Pisces Overdensity (PI). 2009/09 INT/WFC 7 nights, photometry of satellite candidates identified in SDSS. 2009 VLT/FORS2 Phase II preparation for service mode, multi-object spectroscopy. 2008 VLT/FORS2 Phase II preparation for service mode, single-slit spectroscopy.