All Space Considered with Sabrina Stierwalt – June 2024
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All Space Considered is excited to welcome this month’s guest, Dr. Sabrina Stierwalt – Astrophysicist and Professor! Join us as she discusses, What Happens When Galaxies Collide?
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Dr. Sabrina Stierwalt
Sabrina Stierwalt is an observational astrophysicist who researches the internal and environmental processes driving star formation in nearby galaxies. She leads the NSF-funded program TiNy Titans, the first systematic study of the gas dynamics and star formation in interacting dwarf galaxies. Sabrina earned her BA from UC Berkeley and her PhD from Cornell University. As a postdoc, she was the first astrophysicist to be named a L’Oreal/AAAS For Women in Science Fellow and then later a L’Oreal-UNESCO International Rising Talent. In 2021, she was a Periclean Faculty Leaders Fellow, a fellowship awarded for bringing community-based learning practices into the college physics classroom. Sabrina has been an invited plenary speaker for Society for Optics & Photonics (SPIE) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS). She is currently Vice Chair of NASA’s Cosmic Origins Program Analysis Group Executive Committee and serves on the board of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. She works to make science and the stars more accessible through a program to bring an inflatable planetarium to communities that have been historically excluded in STEM. You can find her featured on PBS Nova and via her numerous articles in Scientific American. She currently explores the universe as an Assistant Professor of Physics at Occidental College in the heart of Los Angeles.