About Azalee
At A Glance
Supernovae
Massive stars
Open Science
Python
Software Carpentry
Data Carpentry
My Story
I am an LSSTC Catalyst Fellow at University of Arizona. I am currently working on projects to characterize the massive stars that explode a supernovae (Type II).
I did my PhD work at UC Davis where I was a UC Presidents Pre-Professoriate Fellow at University of California, Davis. I was a DiRAC fellow at University of Washington before moving to Arizona.
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In my spare time, I volunteer for the Carpentries as an instructor. As an instructor I organize and teach programming skills to researchers to allow them to work more efficiently to create reproducible work. I currently organize the Software and Data Carpentry Workshop at the Winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society. I am also the PI of a grant through the American Institute of Physics to develop Data Carpentry lessons for the astronomical community. Check out our new curriculum: Foundations of Astronomical Data Science!
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Prior to returning to graduate school, I spent 5 years as a Senior Research and Instrument Analyst at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). At STScI, I coordinated the calibration pipeline development of the two spectrographs on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST): the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). I also monitored the decline in sensitivity of the COS and STIS FUV and NUV detectors. At STScI, I began my work characterizing massive stars with spectra of the most massive stars R136 (the central starburst cluster of 30 Doradus).
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In my remaining moments, explore on my bike, paddle board, climb, garden, and bake.