Jennifer Lotz

Director, Space Telescope Science Institute

Dr. Lotz returned to STScI from NOIRLab where she was the Director of the International Gemini Observatory. Before her appointment as Gemini Director, she was a tenured associate astronomer at STScI with a joint appointment as a research scientist at Johns Hopkins University. Lotz led the Hubble Frontier Fields program, one of the largest programs undertaken with Hubble to detect the faintest distant galaxies yet seen. She continues her study of galaxies at the edge of the universe as part of the JWST Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science team. Dr. Lotz received her PhD in astrophysics from Johns Hopkins University in 2003.