Lindsay Glesener

She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley for two years before joining the University of Minnesota in 2014.^[2] She was promoted to assistant professor in 2015.^[3] She was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to expand the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Minnesota.^[9]

Glesener is the PI of the FOXSI Sounding Rocket.^[10][11] FOXSI detects Hard X-rays which are a signature of extraordinarily hot solar material.^[12] The rocket payload flew in 2014, using a Solar Aspect and Alignment System and Hard X-rays Spectroscopy to obtain focussed images of the sun.^[13] She also works on small CubeSats.^[1][10] In 2017 Glesener identified that nanoflares (small explosions) in the plasma of the sun may cause the scalding temperatures in the solar corona.^[14]

In 2018 she was awarded an NSF Career Award, allowing her to link high-energy solar and astrophysics.^[15][16] FOXSI 3 launched on August 21, 2018.^[17] Glesener wants to identify how particles are accelerated in the most high-energy events that occur in the sun, including explosions, flares and plasma ejections.^[18]

Glesener has given invited talks at academic conferences and colleges.^{[19][20][21][22][23]} She is on the Solar Physics Division committee of the American Astronomical Society.^[24]

• List of women in leadership positions on astronomical instrumentation projects