Laura Lopez
Associate Professor of Astronomy
Ohio State University
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