Jennifer Sieben

Oct 1, 2024 | pubs.aip.org | Alex Lopatka |Jennifer Sieben |Richard J. Fitzgerald

Scouting for a new research area, Larry Abbott, who had made his name as a theoretical particle physicist, says it was “love at first sight” when he heard neurons pulsating on an audio monitor. Alexie Leauthaud was forced to evacuate her home in the Santa Cruz Mountains during a 2020 wildfire. That experience, plus a comprehension of the scale of climate change–induced migration, prompted her to expand beyond her research on dark energy and dark matter into ways to adapt to the warming planet.

Oct 1, 2024 | pubs.aip.org | Alex Lopatka |Jennifer Sieben |Richard J. Fitzgerald

Jamie Tayar describes her assistant professorship in the University of Florida’s department of astronomy as akin to running a small business. “You have to bid on contracts or grants, hire and manage personnel or students, deal with the finances, and communicate results to stakeholders in the form of grant reports, papers, and colloquia,” she says.