Laura Lopez

Associate Professor of Astronomy

Ohio State University

 

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Employment

2021-             Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University

2015-2021     Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University                         

2018-2021     Tycho & Sophie Brahe Visiting Professor, Niels Bohr Institute                         

2014-2015     NASA Hubble Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics                        

2011-2014     Pappalardo Fellow in Physics and NASA Einstein Fellow, MIT              


Education

2011                PhD, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California Santa Cruz 

2007                MS, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California Santa Cruz

2004                SB, Physics, Minors in Astronomy and Political Science, MIT


Awards

2022-2023      Vera Rubin Distinguished Visiting Professor, UC Santa Cruz

2022-2023      IDEA Scholar, Flatiron Institute

2022                AAS High-Energy Astrophysics Division Early Career Prize

2019                NASA Group Achivement Award (for Lynx Science & Technology Definition Team)

2019                Cottrell Scholar Award, Research Corporation for Science Advancement

2018                Tycho & Sophie Brahe Visiting Professorship, Niels Bohr Institute

2018, 2015      Scialog Fellow, Research Corporation for Science Advancement

2016                AAS Annie Jump Cannon Award (for outstanding research within 5 years of PhD)

2014                NASA Hubble Fellowship

2013                Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow

2012                American Physical Society Division of Astrophysics Award (for best astro PhD thesis)

2011                MIT Pappalardo Fellowship in Physics

2011                NASA Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship

2010                UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship

2010                AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship

2010                ARCS Foundation Fellowship

2009                AAS Beth Brown Memorial Prize (for best poster at NSBP/NSHP meeting)

2009, 2005      Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship, University of California

2007                Whitford Prize (for outstanding second year student in astrophysics), UCSC

2004                NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

2004                Alan H. Barrett Prize (for best astrophysics thesis), MIT Physics Department

2004                Joel Matthew Orloff Award (for outstanding service in physics), MIT Physics Dept

2002                APS Corporate Minority Scholarship