Curriculum Vitae: David R. Law Space Telescope Science Institute [email protected] 3700 San Martin Drive Tel: (410) 338-4803 Baltimore, MD 21218

http://www.stsci.edu/∼dlaw Last updated September 25 2020

I. Education: 2003-2009: Ph.D. Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology Defended July 2008 Advisor: Professor Charles C. Steidel “The Kiloparsec-Scale Structure and Kinematics of High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies” 1999-2003: B.A. Astronomy-Physics, Summa Cum Laude, Minor Mathematics, University of Virginia Advisor: Professor Steven R. Majewski “Modeling the Tidal Tails of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy”

II. Research Interests: Galactic structure and dynamics, internal properties and relation to stellar populations Integral-field spectroscopy and adaptive optics Evolution of galaxies in the young universe (z ∼ 2) The Milky Way, Local Group, and stellar tidal streams

III. Positions: 2017-present: AURA Associate Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute 2014-2017: AURA Assistant Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute 2011-2014: Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics () 2008-2011: Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA 2003-2008: Graduate research student, Caltech (Advisor: Dr. Charles C. Steidel)

IV. Awards and Honors: 2011: Dunlap Fellowship 2008: Hubble Fellowship 2004: Holloway Fellowship, Caltech 2003: D. Nelson Limber Prize, University of Virginia 2003: Small Research Fellowship, University of Virginia

V. Publications: Lead Author on 19 Refereed Publications (ApJ, ApJL, AJ, Nature) Co-author on 82 Additional Refereed Publications See publication list

VI. Selected Professional Service: 2019-present: STScI representative to SDSS-V Collaboration Council 2019: Panelist: SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper Systems Requirements Review 2018-2019: STScI representative to SDSS-V Advisory Council 2016-2017: Co-chair, Summer 2017 WFIRST science conference at STScI Astronomy in the 2020s: Synergies with WFIRST 2016-2018: Co-chair, NASA WFIRST Integral Field Channel Working Group 2016: External examiner, A. Mortazavi PhD Thesis Defense (JHU)

1 2011-present: Data Team Lead and Executive Committee member for MaNGA (SDSS-IV) IFU survey Leading development of data reduction/analysis software, delivery of survey science products Managing contributions from international team and software project postdoctoral hires 2013-2014: Canadian observing TAC member 2013: HST Cycle 21 review panel member 2012: Graduate Admissions Committee (University of Toronto) 2012, 2013: Local Organizing Committee: Dunlap Institute Instrumentation Summer School 2011: External examiner, A. Green PhD Thesis (Swinburne University) 2011: Review Panelist: Giant Magellan Telescope integral field spectrograph (GMTIFS) CoDR 2011: Member: NSF Review Panel 2010-2011: Postdoctoral representative to UCLA faculty 2008-present: Referee for the journals AJ, ApJ, MNRAS, A&A, Nature 2008-2014: Science team member: Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) 2007: Science Advisor: Keck next-generation adaptive optics program 2004-present: Member of the American Astronomical Society

VII. Selected Space Telescope Science Institute Service: 2017-2020: Member, Research Computing Forum 2018: ERS Financial Review panel 2017-2019: Chair, Technical Staff Research Committee 2016,2019: Member, Prize Fellows Committee 2015-2017: Member, Research Support Advisory Committee 2015-2017: Member, Technical Staff Research Committee

VIII. Teaching and Mentorship:

MaNGA Data Team Students and Postdocs: Dr. Brett Andrews (now Research Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh) Dr. Brian Cherinka (now Archive Scientist at STScI) Dr. Lodovico Coccato (now Associate Astronomer at ESO) Dan Lazarz (graduate student at University of Kentucky) Dr. Jose Sanchez-Gallego (now Research Associate at University of Washington) Dr. Kyle Westfall (now Staff Scientist at UCO Lick) Dr. Kai Zhang (now DESI Project Scientist at LBNL)

2020: Co-supervised STScI summer student Casey Cohen (JHU) 2014-2018: Supervised SDSS-IV infrastructure work by Dr. Brian Cherinka (University of Toronto, JHU) 2013: Supervised undergraduate research by Ryan Cloutier, Arthur Sowinski, and Paul Tan 2013: UofT Summer Undergraduate Lecture Series guest lecturer: Dark Matter (Dunlap Undergrad Summer Students) 2012-2013: Supervised research by UofT undergraduate Jade Checlair (Law et al. 2015) 2012: Supervised research by Maryna Tsybulska (Dunlap Undergrad Summer Student) 2010-2011: Supervised research by UCLA undergraduate Sarah R. Nagy (Nagy et al. 2011) 2006-2007: Co-advised (with C. Steidel) senior thesis research by Caltech undergraduate David Simenc 2005: Teaching Assistant, Structure and Dynamics of Galaxies, Caltech (graduate) 2005: Teaching Assistant, Galaxies and Cosmology, Caltech 2004, 2005: Teaching Assistant, Astronomical Measurements and Instrumentation, Caltech (graduate)

IX. Selected Outreach: 2017: Lecturer: Butler Montessori School Astronomy Night 2017: Science Consultant: Lecture Course for Swiss High School Physics Teachers The Sagittarius Stream and Dark Matter in the Gaia Era

2 2016: Science Consultant: Galaxies and Galactic Structure W.W. Norton Textbook: Astronomy: At Play in the Cosmos (A. Frank) 2012: lecture Evolution of Galaxies Over Cosmic Time 2012: University of Toronto public lecture Ribbon in the Sky: Our Milky Way Galaxy from Antiquity to the Modern Day 2012: University of Toronto Science Rendezvous lecture Telescopes Past, Present, and Future 2012: Invited speaker, North York Astronomical Association 2011: Classroom educator and TMT representative, “Journey through the Universe” (Hilo, HI). 2010: Speaker, UCLA “Exploring Your Universe” Outreach Day Our Corner of the Cosmos: The Local Group of Galaxies 2010: Invited speaker, Ventura County Astronomical Society Tidal Streams in the Milky Way 2002-2003: Public Night Telescope Operator, McCormick Observatory

X. Selected Grant and Proposal History:

2019: Panoptic Spectroscopy with SDSS-V at STScI STScI Large Director’s Discretionary Research grant (Co-PI, ∼ $1.1M) 2018: LVM (Local Volume Mapper); integral field spectroscopy of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. Component of SDSS-V survey running from 2020-2025 (PI: Niv Drory) CoI, developed software and data systems plan. 2017: TEMPLATES: Targeting Extremely Magnified Panchromatic Lensed Arcs and Their Extended Star Formation. JWST Early Release Science Program. CoI, (PI: Rigby) 2015: Investigating the Nature of Dark Energy using Type Ia Supernovae with the WFIRST-AFTA Space Mission. Collaborator, (PI: Perlmutter) 2012: W.M. Keck Observatory (NIRSPEC), CoI 1 night, The Dynamics of Merging Pairs at z ∼ 2 − 3 2011: MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO); resolved spectroscopy for 10,000 galaxies. Component of SDSS-IV survey running from 2014-2020 (PI: Kevin Bundy) Lead Data Scientist and Executive Committee member. 2011: W.M. Keck Observatory (OSIRIS), CoI 3 nights, Mapping the Dynamical Properties of a Rare Spiral Galaxy at z = 2.18 2011: Hubble Space Telescope: Cycle 19 (ACS), CoI 16 orbits, GO-12564 Proper Motions along the Sagittarius Stream: Constraining Milky Way Parameters/Dark Halo Shape 2011: Hubble Space Telescope: Cycle 19 (WFC3/GRISM), CoI 30 orbits, GO-12471 The Bottom of the Iceberg: Faint z 2 Galaxies and the Enrichment of the IGM 2010: Gemini Observatory (NIFS), CoI 45 hours, USA lead scientist on international collaboration Resolving the Kinematics of High-Redshift Galaxy Assembly 2009-2010: Hubble Space Telescope: Cycle 17 (WFC3/IR), PI 42 orbits, GO-11694, allocation ∼ $150, 000 Mapping the Interaction between High-Redshift Galaxies and the Intergalactic Environment 2009-2010: Hubble Space Telescope: Cycle 17 (WFC3/UVIS), CoI 30 orbits, GO-11638, allocation ∼ $120, 000 Illuminating the HI Structure of a Proto-cluster Region at z = 2.84

3 2009: W.M. Keck Observatory (NIRC2), CoI 1 night, Optical Morphologies of Star-Forming Galaxies at z ∼ 2 2008-2009: W.M. Keck Observatory (OSIRIS), CoI 5 nights, Mapping Star Formation in Faint QSO Host Galaxies at z ∼ 2 2005-2008: W.M. Keck Observatory (OSIRIS), CoI 17 nights, Spatially Resolved Kinematics of Star-Forming Galaxies at z ∼ 2

XI. Observational and Technical Experience: Keck Obervatory (Keck I/II: NIRC2, OSIRIS/LGSAO, NIRSPEC, LRIS) Palomar Obervatory (200” Hale: WIRC, LFC) Cerro Tololo Interamerican Obervatory (4m Blanco, 1.5m: CSPEC, MOSAIC) Las Campanas Observatory (100” duPont) Hubble Space Telescope (ACS, WFPC2, WFC3) Apache Point Observatory (SDSS 2.5m; MaNGA optical IFU) Experience with multiple major programming languages: Python, IDL, C, C++, Fortran, IRAF

XII. Selected Recent Talks: Invited Plenary at SDSS-IV/V Joint Collaboration Meeting, June 2020 The MaNGA Survey Invited Talk at Lorentz Center Workshop: Leiden, Netherlands, October 2019 Capabilities of the JWST IFUs and Science at z ∼ 2 Contributed Talk at MaNGA team meeting: Oxford, England, April 2019 MaNGA Observations of High-Redshift Galaxy Analogs Contributed Talk at AAS #233: Seattle, WA, January 2019 Extended ionized gas nebulae around optically faint AGNs at redshift z ∼ 2 Speaker at STScI CoolSci Colloquium Series: STScI, January 2019 Extended ionized gas nebulae around optically faint AGNs at redshift z ∼ 2 Invited Talk at “Multiplexed Fiber Spectroscopy with Keck and TMT”: California, January 2018 SDSS-IV/MaNGA Observations of the Intracluster Light in the Coma Cluster Contributed Talk at MaNGA team meeting: Shanghai, China, November 2016 Science at Low Light; Deep Spectrophotometry with MaNGA Invited Speaker at ASIAA Mergers Workshop: Taipei, Taiwan, November 2015 MaNGA Science Data Products Colloquium Speaker at Virginia Tech: October 2015 Galaxy Evolution: Lessens from Integral Field Spectroscopy Colloquium Speaker at STScI: March 2014 Galaxy Kinematics through Integral Field Spectroscopy Colloquium Speaker at Ohio State University: February 2014 Galaxy Kinematics through Integral Field Spectroscopy Colloquium Speaker at University of Toronto: January 2014 Galaxy Kinematics through Integral Field Spectroscopy Colloquium Speaker at University of Washington: November 2013 Early Growth of Galaxies Colloquium Speaker at Queens University: October 2013 Early Growth of Galaxies Review Speaker at MaNGA Critical Design Review: Tokyo, Japan, May 2013 MaNGA Observing Strategy, MaNGA Software Development Colloquium Speaker at Rochester Institute of Technology: November 2012 Early Growth of Galaxies Colloquium Speaker at University of Toronto: October 2012

4 Early Growth of Galaxies Invited Review Lecture at “Galaxy Surveys using Integral Field Spectroscopy”: Potsdam, Germany, Sep. 2012 Early Growth of Galaxies Invited Speaker at “Galaxies: Insight Out” workshop: Leiden, Netherlands, July 2012 Kinematic Structure of a Rare z = 2.18 Grand Design Spiral Galaxy Invited Speaker at : Ontario, Canada, 2011 Rest-Frame Optical Imaging of z ∼ 2-3 Star-Forming Galaxies with HST/WFC3 Invited Speaker at “Galaxies in the Distant Universe” conference: Ringberg Castle, Bavaria, 2010 The Physical Structure of Galaxies at z ∼ 2 − 3 Colloquium Speaker at UC Irvine: Irvine, CA, 2010 Galactic Archaeology with the Sagittarius Stellar Tidal Stream Colloquium Speaker at New : New York, 2009 Evidence for a Triaxial Milky Way Dark Matter Halo

XIII. Selected Media Coverage: BBC News, “First spiral galaxy in early Universe stuns astronomers”, July 19 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18891760 Scientific American, “Primordial Pinwheel: Astronomers Spot Oldest Prominent Spiral Galaxy Yet”, July 19 2012 (online), October 2012 p20 (print) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=grand-design-spiral-bx442 Time Magazine, “Found: The Prettiest Baby Galaxy Ever”, July 20 2012 http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2119961,00.html BBC News, “Dark matter ‘beach ball’ unveiled”, Jan 6 2010 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8444038.stm New Scientist, “Milky Way’s dark matter ‘turned on its side’ ”, Jan 6 2010 http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18344 Sky & Telescope, “Dark Matter and Dark Energy Update”, January 9 2010 http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/81035932.html National Public Radio: Morning Edition, “Astronomers Map Dark Matter ‘Beach Ball’ ”, Jan 7 2010 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122290475 Sky and Telescope, “Meet the Milky Way’s Newfound Neighbors”, July 2005, p. 17 CNN News, “Sagittarius being eaten by Milky Way”, Sep 25 2003

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