ELISABETH KRAUSE CV Center for Particle Cosmology Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Pennsylvania 209 South 33rd Street Phone: +1-626-354-9475 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 [email protected] EDUCATION &EMPLOYMENT since July 2012 Postdoctoral Researcher Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania Oct. 2007 - June 2012 PhD in Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology Thesis: Topics in Large-Scale Structure Advisor: Prof. Chris Hirata Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2007 Diplom in Physics, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit¨at,Bonn, Germany Diploma thesis: Mock Observations of Simulated Galaxy Interactions Supervisors: Prof. Peter Schneider & Prof. Lars Hernquist RESEARCH EXPERIENCE since July 2012 Participant, Dark Energy Survey Collaboration key contributor to the Theory & Combined Probes working group analysis pipeline, organizer of theory code comparisons, co-lead of higher-order statistics and lensing + structure sub-groups, member of blind analysis task force Oct. 2007 - May 2012 Graduate Research in Theoretical and Observational Cosmology projects ranging from analytic calculations to data processing and interpretation of clustering measurements July - Aug. 2006 Summer Student, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) partial wave analysis for the COMPAS experiment Oct. 2005 - June 2006 Diploma Thesis Research, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics with Lars Hernquist and TJ Cox: Mock observations and photometric analysis of simulated galaxy interactions June - Sept. 2005 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, California Institute of Technology with Elena Pierpaoli: analyzed SPH simulations to study the impact of cluster mergers on cluster morphologies and SZ scaling relations July - Oct. 2004 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, California Institute of Technology with George Djorgovski and Ashish Mahabal: exploring the variability of quasars with Palomar Quest May 2002 - Mar. 2005 Research Internships, in total 7 months, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics with Torsten Enlin and Francesco Miniati: large-scale structure of the Faraday rotation power spectrum from cosmological structure formation Apr. 2003 - Mar. 2004 Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy with Gerhard Weigelt, near-infrared interferometry group: data reduction of WFPC2 and speckle interferometry observations, literature research and prepa- ration of observations 1 ELISABETH KRAUSE CV TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant, Fall 2008 - Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Winter 2011 California Institute of Technology Grading & weekly discussion sections for Physics of Stars (undergrad), Radiative Processes, Galaxies, Cosmology (x2), Interstellar Medium (all graduate courses) Teaching Assistant, Apr. 2004 - June 2005, Oct. 2006-Jan. 2007 University of Bonn, Germany Writing problem sets & teaching weekly problem solving sections with 10-40 students for In- troductory Astrophysics and Cosmology, and graduate level Cosmology courses; contributed to lecture notes on galaxy formation AWARDS &HONORS Greenstein Fellowship 07-08, California Institute of Technology Study Abroad Fellowship, German National Academic Foundation, Oct. 2005 - June 2006 Fellowship of the German National Academic Foundation, Oct. 2003 Sept. 2007 Merit-based fellowship, awarded to 0.5% of all German university students European Space Agency Student Parabolic Flight Campaign 2005 Experiment proposal on surface deformations of ferrofluids in weightlessness selected by European Space Agency to take part in a parabolic flight 1st prize at National Science Contest for High-School Students (Jugend forscht) Astronomy prize at the European Union Contest for Young Scientists Junior Prize of the German Astronomical Society, 2002 wrote and analyzed N-body simulation of galaxy encounters on home computers 2.