Barbara Sue Ryden
Cosmos Mariner: Destination Unknown
After graduating from
Neenah High School in Neenah, WI (class of '79),
I received a BA ('83) from
Northwestern University, where I was a student in the
Integrated Science Program.
My PhD ('87) is from
the
department of astrophysical sciences
at Princeton University.
I did stints as a postdoc at
the CfA
and CITA.
I am currently an associate professor in the
department of astronomy at
The Ohio State University.
My main research interests are in galaxies
and in the large scale structure of the universe.
I've also written a pair of textbooks.
Introduction to Cosmology won the inaugural
Chambliss Astronomical
Writing Award of the American Astronomical Society.
Foundations of Astrophysics, cowritten by
Brad Peterson, was published in March 2009.
For more details of my life, grab a copy of my
curriculum vitae
(PostScript format).
