Dr. Joanna Woo - Curriculum Vitae CONTACT Institute Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University Shrum Science P8429, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada Phone +1 778-782-5623 E-mail j [email protected] Citizenship Canadian ACADEMIC HISTORY Position Lecturer Jul. 2019- Institute Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University (SFU) present Research Morphological transformation in hydrodynamical simulations; outflows and galaxy morphology, machine learning and stellar populations Position Postdoctoral Fellow Oct. 2017- Institute Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Victoria (UVic) Jun. 2019 Research Connection between AGN and galactic structural transformation; metal en- richment history of galaxies; environmental influences on galaxy evolution Position Postdoctoral Researcher Oct. 2013- Institute Institute for Astronomy, ETH Zurich Sep. 2017 Research Environmental quenching and structural transformation; isolated galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey; PI of MUESLI project to observe Hickson Compact Groups with MUSE Degree Doctor of Philosophy in Astrophysics Jan. 2014 Institute Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Jerusalem, Israel Thesis Title Star Formation and its Suppression in Galaxies Advisor Prof. Avishai Dekel Degree Master of Science, with specialisation in Astrophysics Jun. 2006 Institute Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Jerusalem, Israel Thesis Title The Fundamental Line of Dwarf Galaxies Advisor Prof. Avishai Dekel Degree Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics and Astronomy May 2003 Institute University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada Thesis Title Principal Component Analysis of Dwarf and Spiral Galaxies Advisors Prof. Stephane´ Courteau and Prof. Avishai Dekel Note Alumna of Science One, an advanced intensive interdisciplinary science pro- gram for excellent first-year students 1 Dr. Joanna Woo - Curriculum Vitae AWARDS AND RECOGNITION MERAC Award for young European Astrophysicists and Cosmologists 2017 ACRU Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined) 2013 Rosenblum Prize for Excellence in Physics (HUJI) 2007 Goodman Prize for Influential Paper (HUJI) 2006 Freda Thau Memorial Scholarship (HUJI) 2003-2005 Dean’s Honour List (UBC) 2000-2003 J Fred Muir Memorial Scholarship in Science (UBC) 2001 Outstanding Student Initiative Award (UBC) 1999 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Astronomy Research Centre (ARC) 2017-present Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) 2018-present • Galaxy formation and evolution science working group • Active Galactic Nuclei and Supermassive Black Holes science working group • Deployable Integral Field Unit Development Team Canadian Astronomical Society - Societ´ e´ Canadienne D’Astronomie (CASCA) 2018-present Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) 2013-present International Astronomical Union (IAU) 2009-present Dark Energy Survey (DES) 2014-2017 • Galaxy evolution science working group All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS) 2010-2013 DATA SETS AND SIMULATIONS MaNGA Measuring stellar populations, gas properties 2017-present MUESLI (PI); ongoing program to observe Hickson Compact Groups with MUSE 2015-present MAD GTO program to observe isolated disk galaxies with MUSE 2014-present Dark Energy Survey 107 galaxies, statistical environments with photometric redshifts, SED 2014-2017 modelling and stellar masses Galaxies In Cosmological Simulations (GalICS) Semi-Analytic Model Running and mod- 2009-present ifying the code to test the results of different physics Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) CASJobs SQL queries; stellar populations; abundance 2006-present matching; analysis of galaxy profiles; standard tools such as kcorrect; All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS) abundance match- 2006-2013 ing Local Group Dwarf Galaxies Scoured the literature to compile a well-cited database; PCA 2002-2006 and stellar population synthesis HUMAN LANGUAGES Fluent: English, Hebrew Conversational: Cantonese, Arabic, Swiss German, French 2 Dr. Joanna Woo - Curriculum Vitae DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS Image analysis: • Measuring sizes, fluxes, morphologies of galaxies (Sextractor, ZEST, Galfit) • Aligning, combining images from the Hubble Space Telescope and MUSE (Drizzlepac) SED/Spectral fitting: • Full spectral fitting of galaxy spectra (pPXF) to derive line-of-sight-velocity distributions and stellar popula- tions • Fitting of galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs) to derive photometric redshifts, stellar masses and SFRs (ZEBRA, ZEBRA+, GALEXEV, KCORRECT) High Performance Computing: 106 core hours on Compute Canada, including GPU computing (CUDA), OpenMP, HDF5 for optimising codes for speed and memory (applied to the huge DES, MaNGA, MUSE, SDSS data) Theoretical Modelling: Modifying and running the GalICS cosmological simulation General: Principal Component Analysis COMPUTING LANGUAGES AND OPERATING SYSTEMS Computing Python (+ astronomy libraries), IDL/GDL (+ astronomy libraries), Fortran, C++, Languages MySQL, SQL, SuperMongo, bash/sh scripts, PHP, Javascript, contributed patches and bug reports to open source software Version Control Git Optimisation OpenMP, HDF5, CUDA (GPU programming) Typesetting/ LATEX, HTML, CSS Markup Operating Linux (Ubuntu and SUSE - including setting up networks and servers), OS X, Win- systems dows, Android, iOS RESEARCH ADVISING EXPERIENCE Morphological transformation in the IllustrisTNG hydrodynamical simulation with Dan Wal- 2019 ters (University of Victoria) Machine learning for deriving stellar population parameters from spectra, with undergraduate 2019 student Finn Archinuk (University of Victoria) Stellar Populations and the Environment in the MaNGA IFU survey with undergraduate stu- 2017-2018 dent Marcus Merryfield (University of Victoria) Dark Matter Accretion Rate in the Bolshoi Cosmological Simulation with masters student 2014-2015 Chris Beekman (ETH Zurich) Bulge-to-disk decomposition in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with masters student 2012 Keren Sarusi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Advisor to award-winning research project for high school student Pavel Fadeev (Israeli High 2009-2010 School for the Sciences and the Arts) entitled “Study of Star Forming HII Regions in the SDSS.” Awards include Third Prize in the Israel Contest for Young Scientists and the EIROforum Special Prize at the European Union finale of the same contest. 3 Dr. Joanna Woo - Curriculum Vitae TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor • Phys 385: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (SFU) 2019 Guest Lecturer • ASTR 150: Concepts in Modern Astronomy (UVic) 2018 • Galactic Astronomy (ETH Zurich): Masters level course 2017 Teaching Assistant (ETH Zurich) • Galactic Astronomy: Masters level course 2017 Duties: tutorials, design & evaluate assignments • Astrophysical Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution: Masters level course 2014-2016 Duties: tutorials, design & evaluate assignments • Astronomy laboratory: Radio Interferometry of the Sun (Undergraduate level course) 2014-2017 Duties: interferometry theory, design experiment, assist in measurements Teaching Assistant (Hebrew University) 2010-2012 • Advanced Cosmology and Galaxy Formation: Masters level course Duties: tutorials, design & evaluate assignments, guide final projects Astronomy Lecturer and Telescope Operator 2002-2004 • H. R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vancouver, Canada Duties: give lectures and observing sessions for general audiences Teaching Assistant (UBC) 2002-2003 • ASTR 310 Lecture and Laboratory for non-science students Duties: teach tutorial sessions and evaluate assignments Performance Evaluation: 4.65 / 5.00 Quote from one evaluation: “Best TA I ever had!” • PHYS 153 Laboratory for engineering students Duties: supervise laboratory experiments and evaluate lab notebooks Performance Evaluation: 4.51 / 5.00 Informal Language Teacher 2014-present Private lessons in English and Hebrew in exchange for lessons in various other languages LEADERSHIP AND OUTREACH Leader of public astronomy workshops (SFU) 2019 Live TV interview with CityTV’s Breakfast Television 2019 Member of the Astronomy Research Computing Commitee (UVic) 2018 Member of the Women in Physics working group (UVic) 2018 Invited speaker for a meeting of the Victoria chapter of the Royal Astronomical Society Jun 2018 of Canada Referee for the journals MNRAS, ApJ and A&A 2013-present Coordinator for the weekly Postdoc Lunch (Institute for Astronomy, ETH Zurich) 2013-2016 Testified before a Canadian Parliamentary Committee on Expat Voting Rules Jun 2015 Coordinator for the weekly “Cosmolunch” group meetings for paper reviews and group 2009-2013 research (Racah Institute of Physics, HUJI, Israel) Physicist on the Titanium Physicists Podcast (http://titaniumphysicists.brachiolopemedia.com) Jan 2012 Coordinator for astrophysics research projects for gifted high school students, hosted by 2007-2012 Belmonte Laboratories (Jerusalem, Israel) 4 Dr. Joanna Woo - Curriculum Vitae Inspector and Referee/Judge at the annual FIRST Robotics Competition for high school 2006-2009 students (Tel Aviv, Israel) Volunteer guide on astronomy trips: Centre for Youth and Science (Jerusalem, Israel) 2005-2006 UBC Astronomy Club Founder and President (Vancouver, Canada) 2001-2003 CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS Talk at Departmental Seminar Series, Cambridge University Apr. 2019 Invited review at the MaNGA Collaboration Meeting 2019, (Oxford, UK) Apr. 2019 Invited review at the conference “The Life and Death of Star-forming Galaxies”, (Perth, Aus- Mar. 2019 tralia) Invited review at the Astronomy NWxSW meeting, (Vancouver, Canada)