Jennifer Lotz
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| Born | Jennifer Mae Lotz |
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| Thesis | The History of the Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies (2003) |
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Jennifer Mae Lotz is an American astronomer who studies the shape and evolution of galaxies, including galaxy mergers. She is currently the director of the Space Telescope Science Institute.[1] She previously worked at the NOIRLab, a project of the National Science Foundation, as director of the Gemini Observatory.[2]
Lotz is originally from Florida; she became interested in astronomy through watching the 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage with her father, and seeing Space Shuttle trails in the sky above her home.[3] She majored in physics at Bryn Mawr College,[4] and was a summer intern at the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket in 1994, when Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided with Jupiter.[3]
After graduating in 1996,[4] she did her graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University with the support of a research fellowship from the Space Telescope Science Institute.[3] She completed her Ph.D. in 2003.[2] Her dissertation, The history of the evolution of dwarf galaxies, was supervised by Henry C. Ferguson and Rosemary Wyse.[5]
