Kathie Olsen

Kathie Olsen

KLO International Dr. Olsen earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at UC-Irvine and did Postdoctoral research at Harvard-Children’s Hospital before becoming ...
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 Timothy M. Heckman 

Johns Hopkins University Timothy M. Heckman is the Dr. A. Hermann Pfund Professor in the William H. Miller III Department ...
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Mónica Rubio

Universidad de Chile Dr. Mónica Rubio obtained her Ph.D. degree in Astrophysics and Spatial Techniques at the Universitè de Paris, ...
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Megan Donahue

Michigan State University Donahue grew up on a farm near Inland, Nebraska, a town of about sixty people. Her undergraduate ...
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Matt Mountain

AURA President (ex officio) Matt Mountain, President of AURA since 2015, is the Telescope Scientist for the James Webb Space ...
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Brenna Flaugher

AMCR Chair Fermilab Dr. Brenna Flaugher is a Distinguished Scientist Emeritus at Fermilab, retired in May 2024. She started her ...
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James McAteer

New Mexico State University James McAteer PhD is Deputy Provost and Professor of Astronomy at New Mexico State University. His ...
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David Reitze

LIGO Laboratory California Institute of Technology David Reitze is the Executive Director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Laboratory ...
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Kelle Cruz

NMOC Chair Hunter College, City University of New York Professor Kelle Cruz is an astronomer who earned her B.A. and ...
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Karen Bjorkman

AURA Board Chair University of Toledo Karen Bjorkman received a B.S. in Physics from Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and ...
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Roger Davies

University of Oxford Roger Davies started his research in Cambridge and spent 6 years at NOAO in Tucson, Arizona. He ...
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Leopoldo Infante

Carnegie Science and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Leopoldo Infante is a staff scientist at Carnegie Science and a ...