Jennifer Hoffman

In 1994 Hoffman graduated from University of California, Berkeley, having spent a year at University of Göttingen. Hoffman earned her PhD in 2002 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Advised by Kenneth Nordsieck, her dissertation was titled Locating Mass Loss: Numerical Modeling of Circumstellar Material in Binary Systems.^[1]

In 2003 Hoffman was appointed a National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley.^[2] Here she compiled the Women in Astronomy Resource Page.^[3] She became more involved in activities to promote diversity in physics and astronomy, working with Meg Urry on the American Astronomical Society Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy.^[4][5][6] She worked with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on modelling supernova ejecta.^[6]

At the University of Denver she leads on the HPOL spectropolarimeter.^[7] She was the Editor of the 2013 book, "Stellar Polimetry: From Birth to Death (AIP Conference Proceedings/Astronomy and Astrophysics)".^[8] In 2015 she was part of the Mintaka observing campaign.^[9][10] Hoffman's research group use three dimensional Monte Carlo radiative transfer to model the interaction of circumstellar material with the light of stars and supernovae.