Job Info
Employer:
Princeton University
Employer Home Page:
http://www.princeton.edu/main/
Position Type:
Research
Job skills:
Complex problem solving
Synthesizing information
Mathematical skills
Lab or instrumentation skills
Knowledge of physics principles
Data analysis
Alicia Soderberg's Job:
She studies the use of multi-wavelength observation to constrain the properties of the local and large-scale environments around exploding and/or erupting stars. These observations can shed light on the progenitors of supernovae.
Career Facts
Employer Type:
School/Academia
Current Location:
Princeton, NJ
Physics Degree:
Doctorate
Educational Information
BS - Physics and Math, Bates College
M.Sc. - Applied Mathematics, University of Cambridge
PhD - Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology
More about Alicia Soderberg
Direct link to Alicia Soderberg's profile:
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~alicia/bio.html
Biography:
Alicia is currently is in the beginning of her five year fellowship as a Hubble postdoc and Carnegie-Princeton fellow at Princeton University.
She recently had the good fortune to be the first to observe the supernova (SN 2008D). The supernova occurred a few weeks after another supernova from the same galaxy. To see two supernova's from the same galaxy within a matter of weeks is very unusual- 1:10, 000 chance. Typically a galaxy will produce one supernova every 100 years.
