Julia C. Lee Curriculum Vitae

Contact Harvard University Phone: (617) 496-7521 Information Department of Astronomy Fax: (617) 495-7356 60 Garden Street MS-6 E-mail: [email protected] Cambridge, MA 02138 http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/∼jclee/

Education • Ph.D. Astrophysics, University of Cambridge, UK 1996−2000 ∗ Thesis title: X-ray Reflection and Variability in Active Galactic Nuclei ∗ Adviser: Professor Andrew C. Fabian, FRS • B.S Astrophysics with Honors, UCLA 1994 • B.S Mathematics, UCLA 1994

Research • Experimental Condensed Matter Physics as applied to X-ray studies of interstellar dust Interests as • X-ray studies of efficient accretion systems: neutron stars, microquasars, AGN, and QSOs relevant to • Intervening material: the interstellar and intergalactic medium published work • Dark Energy

Awards & • Gruber Cosmology Prize for Dark Energy discovery 2007 Recognition (co-recipient as co-author on Perlmutter et al., 1999 ApJ, 517, 565: 2011 Nobel prize paper) • NASA (Chandra) Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship 2002−2005 • Sigma Xi Honor Society (MIT Chapter) • Isaac Newton Scholarship (Cambridge University) 1997−1999 • Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS) 1996−1999 • Cambridge Trust Bursary 1997−1999

Employment • Associate Professor, Harvard University 2009− • Assistant Professor, Harvard University 2005−2009 • Chandra Postdoctoral Prize Fellow (Host Institutions: MIT & Harvard) 2002−2005 • Post-doctoral research associate, MIT with Prof. Claude Canizares 2000−2002 • Staff Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1994−1996 ∗ Institute for Nuclear & Particle Astrophysics ∗ Supernova Cosmology Project, with Dr. Saul Perlmutter ∗ Hands-on-Universe, with Dr. Carl Pennypacker • Research Assistant, UCLA Department of Physics & Astronomy 1992−1994

Professional • AAS HEAD Executive Committee 2009 − Activities - American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division • NASA Advisory Committees ∗ Chandra User’s Committee 2003−2006 ∗ HEASARC User’s Committee 2004−2007 ∗ Constellation-X, International X-ray Observatory → Continued on next page → Professional • Peer Review Panel for Einstein Prize fellows 2009 Activities • Peer Review Panel for NASA satellite proposals 2001 − (cont.) • Peer Review for professional journals 2000 − • Science Organizing Committees • New England Board of Higher Education Minority program ∗ served as adviser to high school students and undergraduates

Colloquia Naval Research Laboratories 2011 Apr Carnegie Institution of Washington - Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism 2011 Apr Lehigh University Dept. of Physics 2011 Apr Hong Kong University Dept. of Physics 2011 Jan Ohio State University 2010 Apr Wesleyan University 2010 Nov U. Arizona (NSF ADVANCE Prize Lecture series) 2010 Feb University of Wisconsin 2009 Nov Harvard-Smithsonian CfA 2007 Nov NRAO/U. Virginia 2006 Nov U. Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy 2006 Apr University of Rochester 2006 Jan University of California, Berkeley 2005 Aug Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris 2005 Apr University of Toronto 2004 Oct University of California, Irvine 2004 Mar Harvard University 2004 Feb Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2004 Feb Yale University 2004 Feb NASA Goddard Space Flight 2003 Apr University of California, LA 2003 Feb University of Colorado 2003 Feb Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2003 Jan Columbia University 2003 Jan University of Wisconsin 2002 Oct

Select • Invited Topical Reviews Invited ∗ Conference “Half a century of X-ray Astronomy”, Mykonos, Greece ‡ 2012 Sept Reviews Requested Review: “High Resolution X-ray spectroscopy probes of AGN Environments” & Talks ∗ Conference “Wideband X-ray Astronomy: Frontiers in Timing and Spectroscopy” in Pune, India ‡ 2011 Jan Requested Review: ”Interstellar Medium Absorption studies” ∗ Conference: 7th Annual Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) “Cosmic Dust: Its Formation and Evolution” in Hyderabad, India ‡2010 July Requested Review: “Cosmic Dust: An X-ray Perspective” ∗ Conference: ”Accretion and outflow in black hole systems”, in Kathmandu, Nepal ‡2010 Oct Requested Review: “Winds from Accretion Disks” ∗ IAU General Assembly 275 ”Jets on All Scales” in Buenos Aries Argentina ‡2010 Sept ∗ Conference, SRON, Utrecht: 2010 Mar A review: X-ray Spectroscopy of Dust

‡Ultimately declined due to interference with teaching duties, or other extenuating circumstances. Select ∗ Chandra’s First Decade of Discovery Symposium, Boston MA 2009 Sep Invited A reivew: High Spectral Resolution Probes of Outflows Reviews ∗ IXO Science Definition Team Meeting 2009 Jan & Talks The Interstellar Medium (cont.) ∗ XXVth IAU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2003 July Joint Discussion on Atomic Data for X-ray Astronomy ∗ X-ray spectroscopy of AGN with Chandra and XMM-Newton (MPE) 2001 Dec

• Select Short Seminars and Invited talks ∗ New England Regional Quasar Meeting ∗ Workshop ”Dusty Visions 2010” in Goettingen, Germany 2010 July Title: ”The Dirt on Dust: An X-ray Method to Probe Quantity and Composition” ∗ Cambridge University, U.K. 2008, 2005 ∗ University of Amsterdam 2005 April ∗ Observatoire de Paris, Meudon 2005 March ∗ Chandra Fellow’s Symposia 2002, 03, 04 ∗ New England Regional Quasar Meeting

Harvard • Standing Committee on Women 2010 – Service • Wendell Undergraduate Prize Committee 2010 • Graduate Admissions Committee 2006–2008 • Harvard-Smithsonian OIR Time Allocation Committee 2008 • Examination Committees ∗ Ph.D.Thesis Defense (Manfred Hanke) 2011 ∗ Chair - Ph.D Thesis Defense (Heng Hao) 2011 ∗ Chair - Ph.D Thesis Committee (Jack Steiner) 2009-2011 ∗ Ph.D.Thesis Defense (Paul Kondratko) 2007 ∗ Year 1 Research Exam (Yocong Zhu) 2011 ∗ Year 1 Research Exam (Sarah Ballard) 2009 ∗ Year 1 Research Exam (Joseph Neilsen) 2007 • Undergraduate Concentration Adviser 2005 − • Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Telescope Allocation TAC 2006 −

Teaching • Harvard Lecture Courses 2005− ∗ Freshman Seminar 23u, undergraduate Fall ’12 Gravity in Extremes: Black Holes in the Universe ∗ Astronomy 17, undergraduate Fall ’10,11 Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy ∗ Astronomy 7, undergraduate Spring ’06,07,08,09 Black Holes and the Violent Universe ∗ Astronomy 45, undergraduate Fall 2005 Introduction to Extragalactic Astrophysics and Cosmology ∗ Astronomy 301hf, graduate seminar 2006−2009 Graduate Research Forum • Miscellaneous Teaching ∗ First Summer School on Multiwavelength Astronomy, Paris 2009 July (cont.) ∗ MIT IAP (Independent Activities Period) 2003 January ∗ Outreach: MIT Summer Lecture Series 2003 • Practicals/Tutorials (Cambridge University, undergraduate) 1998-1999 ∗ Mathematics for Science Majors (Natural Science Tripos)

Research • Graduate Research 2006−2011 Mentorship ∗ 1 Harvard student (Joseph Neilsen); 2 co-advise(d) • Undergraduate Research hspace 2003− ∗ 10 total: 8 since Harvard • Postdoctoral Training 2005− ∗ Daniel Evans (2005-2009) ∗ Jingen Xiang (2005-2011) ∗ Farid Rahoui (2010-2012) ∗ Susmita Chakravorty (2010-2013)

All successful • X-ray: Chandra, XMM-Newton, Suzaku (AstroE1 & E2), RXTE, BeppoSAX proposals ∗ Chandra AO1-A13 (2000-2012): ks = kilosecond ◦ 15 proposals: 1588 ks total granted as PI; some non-triggered ToO ◦ 12 proposals: 856 ks total (Co-I with students & postdocs) ◦ 2 (PI) archive – $224,754 total funding; 1 archive (Co-I with postdoc) – $76,000 (Note: Archive proposals are for funding and not observing time) ∗ XMM-Newton: 3 proposals: 240 ks (Co-I) ∗ Suzaku: 400 ks Priority A (PI); 220 ks Priority A,B (Co-I); 85 ks Priority C (Co-I) ∗ RXTE AO3-AO7 (1998-2001): 460 ks (PI); 880 ks (Co-I) ∗ BeppoSAX AO3: 1 proposal: 150 ks (PI)

• UV: HST, FUSE ∗ HST: 4 orbits (PI), 6 orbits (Co-I) ∗ FUSE: 50 ks(PI), 70 ks (Co-I)

• Optical: Magellan, WHT ∗ Hobby-Eberly: 1 hr (Co-I) ∗ Magellan IMAX IFU: 5 nights (PI) ∗ WHT: 1 night (PI)

• IR: Spitzer, Herschel ∗ Spitzer IRS 2.1hrs (Co-I); IRAC+MIPS 1 hr (Co-I) ∗ Herschel PACS 6.2hrs (Co-I with postdoc) ∗ Gemini GNIRS 8 hrs (Co-I with student)

• Radio: VLA, VLBA ∗ VLBA: 18 hrs (PI) ∗ VLA: 6 hrs (PI) ∗ JVLA: 11 hrs (coI with grad student) → Continued on next page → All successful • Laboratory Condensed Matter Experiments: ALS, BNL proposals ∗ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Advanced Light Source (ALS): (cont.) ◦ 27 8-hour shifts on †beamline 6.3.1 (Fe L region) (PI) → Continued on next page → ∗ Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) ◦ Beamline U7a (Fe Lii, iii): 4 days ◦ Beamline X15b (Mg K): 3 days ◦ Beamline X15b (Si K): 4 days ◦ Beamline X19a (S K): 2 days

External • The thermodynamics of X-ray binary winds mapped to accretion states $76,000 NASA Funding • A Chandra HETGS Study of 4U1323-619: Binary Wind Properties, X-ray Burst, Distance and brought to Studies of Interstellar Medium $58,758 Harvard • Testing the Wind-Jet Connection in a Black Hole Transient $28,887 2005− • Measuring Emission Geometry, Interstellar Dust, and Distance with Chandra HETGS Observa- tions of EXO 2030+375 $42,417 • Measuring the GRS 1915+105 Black Hole Spin and Broadband Continuum Properties (non- triggered ToO) $29,715 • 2010 Census of the Norma Spiral Arm Region $62,533 • Investigating the origin of the far-infrared emission of the microquasar Cygnus X-1 $28,746 • The Herschel view on supergiant High Mass X-ray Binaries: revealing the most obscured high- energy sources of our Galaxy $33,140 • A Long Multiwavelength Study of GRS 1915+105: Accretion/Ejection Physics of the Disk Wind and Radio Jet $67,099 • Determining the Properties of Intervening Gas and Dust along the GX 17+2 Line-of-Sight – $50,700 • A comprehensive archival study of GRS 1915+105 HETGS spectra: variability and line-of-sight dust properties $84,753 • Circinus X-1 near Periastron: Probing Binary Physics and ISM Grains along the line-of-sight – $34,318 • The Nature of Energy Transport and Particle Acceleration in the Transitional FRI/FRII Radio Galaxy 3C 288 $42,911 • Constraining the Reflection Properties of the Narrow-Line Radio Galaxy 3C 33 $38,161 • The dirt on dust composition, size, and distribution in the Galaxy $140,009 • A Chandra HETGS Study of LMC X-4 : Binary Disk and Wind Properties and Studies of Grain Distribution at Small Angles $60,417 • The X-ray Nuclei FRII Radio Galaxies: Unification and Accretion Modes $30,150 • The Circumnuclear X-Ray Environments of Highly Disturbed Seyfert Galaxies $32,953 • The Radio-Loud, Radio-Quiet Dichotomy in AGN: Clues from the Compton Reflection Hump $19,069 • A Direct Test of the Fanaroff-Riley Dichotomy in the Nuclei of Radio Galaxies $30,542 • Probing Absorber Kinematics with simultaneous FUSE and Chandra HETGS observations of Markarian 290 $31,844 • A Chandra HETGS & HST view of the warm and lukewarm absorbers in IRAS 13349+2438 – $148,544 → Continued on next page →

†Measurements of the different photoelectric edge regions (FeK, FeL, SiK, MgK, ...) require different beamlines with different experimental setups. External • IRAS 13349+2438: A Unique Laboratory to Probe the Innermost Regions of the Accretion Flow NASA Funding $12,492 brought to • The Near Eddington Neutron Star 4U 1624−490 $41,704 Harvard • The broad Fe line and complex X-ray spectrum of the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 290 $27,924 2005− (cont.) • Probing black hole environments with high resolution X-ray spectroscopy $100,337 • An ACIS-HETGS, RXTE, and Radio VLA-VLBA TOO micro-quasar XTE J1748-288 (Funding not received due to no source trigger.) $71,059 • Determining the grain structure and composition of the ISM while studying the X-ray properties of the intermediate polar XY-Ari (Funding not received due to in-flight failure of Suzaku calorimeter for which this work was intended) $78,000