| Genevieve J. Graves: CV | ||||
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| Education | ||||
| Ph.D., Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz | 2009 | |||
| Part II, Linguistics Tripos, University of Cambridge (U.K.) | 2001-2002 | |||
| B.A., Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics, magna cum laude, Harvard University | 2001 | |||
| Research Interests | ||||
| Galaxy Evolution and Formation | ||||
| Weak Lensing, Cosmology | ||||
| Stellar Populations of Galaxies | ||||
| Dark Matter, Large Scale Structure | ||||
| Chemical Evolution and Abundance Patterns of Galaxies | ||||
| AGN Activity in Galaxies | ||||
| Honors & Awards | ||||
| Miller Fellowship, UC Berkeley | 2009-2012 | |||
| Chancellor's Dissertation Year Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz | 2008-2009 | |||
| ARCS Foundation Fellowship | 2008-2009 | |||
| Whitford Prize, UC Santa Cruz Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics | 2005 | |||
| (for excellence in first two years of graduate work) | ||||
| Regent's Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz | 2003-2004 | |||
| Rotary Ambassadorial Fellowship | 2001-2002 | |||
| Leo Goldberg Prize, Harvard University Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics | 2001 | |||
| (for best undergraduate astrophysics thesis) | ||||
| Successful Grants & Proposals | ||||
| Co-I and principal author of successful 48-orbit / $166K Hubble Space Telescope proposal: "UV imaging to determine the location of residual star formation in galaxies recently arrived on the red sequence" (Cycle 16, PI: Faber) | ||||
| Graduate Student Collaborators / Mentees | ||||
| Eric Huff, UC Berkeley, Ph.D. expected 2012. | ||||
| Weak lensing magnification using a photometric Fundamental Plane. Submitted to ApJL. | ||||
| Jeremy Murphy, UT Austin, Ph.D. expected 2012. | ||||
| Stellar population gradients and kinematics in local early type galaxies. | ||||
| Jerome Fang, UC Santa Cruz, Ph.D. expected 2014. | ||||
| UV imaging of recently quenched galaxies. | ||||
| Eric Lopez, UC Santa Cruz, Ph.D. expected 2013. | ||||
| Galaxy evolution as a function of mass and environment. | ||||
| Lauren Porter, UC Santa Cruz Physics, Ph.D. expected 2013. | ||||
| Stellar populations throughout the Fundamental Plane in semi-analytic models. Submitted to MNRAS. | ||||
| Judy Cheng, UC Santa Cruz, Ph.D. expected 2012. | ||||
| Comparing automated and visual morphologies of non-star-forming galaxies. Published in MNRAS. | ||||
| Undergraduate Student Mentees | ||||
| Anthony Paredes, UC Berkeley, B.A. expected 2013. | ||||
| Comparing the stellar populations of ellipticals galaxies to those of bulge-dominated passive spirals. | ||||
| Patrick Fitzpatrick, UC Berkeley, B.A. expected 2013. | ||||
| Comparing the stellar populations passive galaxies in different environments. | ||||
| Observing & Software Experience | ||||
| Keck/DEIMOS multi-object optical spectroscopy (7 nights) | ||||
| Keck/LRIS long-slit spectroscopy (6 nights) | ||||
| Palomar/DoubleSpec long-slit spectroscopy (3 nights) | ||||
| Lick Shane 3m KAST optical spectrograph (1 night) | ||||
| Wrote EZ_Ages software package (IDL code for measuring absorption indices and finding best-fitting abundance pattern for an observed spectrum) | ||||
| Positions Held | ||||
| Miller Fellow, University of California, Berkeley | 2009-present | |||
| Graduate Student, University of California, Santa Cruz, Adviser: Sandra M. Faber | 2003-2009 | |||
| Teaching Assistant, University of California, Santa Cruz, Astronomy 5 with Sandra Faber | 2007 | |||
| Teaching Assistant, University of California, Santa Cruz, Astronomy 10 with Stan Woosley | 2004 | |||
| Student Researcher, Harvard University, Adviser: Robert Kirshner | 2000-2001 | |||
| Student Researcher, University of California, Berkeley, Adviser: James Graham | 1998-1999 | |||
| Service | ||||
| Referee: ApJ, ApJL, MNRAS | 2009-present | |||
| Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 18 TAC-Exgal Panel 3 | 2010 | |||
| Elected Directory of Astronomy Graduate Students | 2007-2008 | |||
| (representative to the faculty, manager of official grad activities) | ||||
| Graduate Student Representative on Search Committee for new Lick Observatory Director | 2005-2006 | |||
| Bibliography | ||||
| See Publications page. | ||||