Biography:Lindsay Glesener
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| Alma mater | San Francisco State University University of California, Berkeley |
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| Institutions | University of Minnesota |
| Thesis | Faint Coronal Hard X-rays From Accelerated Electrons in Solar Flares (2012) |
Lindsay Erin Glesener is a professor in the Institute for Astrophysics at the University of Minnesota . She is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award researcher and lead investigator on the FOXSI Sounding Rocket.
Early life and education
Glesener grew up near Lake Superior.[1] After Glesener graduated from high school she worked briefly as a ballet dancer.[2] Glesener completed her bachelor's degree at San Francisco State University, graduating in 2006.[3] She joined the University of California, Berkeley for her graduate studies, earning a Masters in 2009 and a PhD in 2012. Her thesis, Faint Coronal Hard X-rays From Accelerated Electrons in Solar Flares, was supervised by Robert Lin and Säm Krucker.[4][5] Whilst a PhD student she wrote for the Berkeley Science Review.[6] For her thesis she was awarded the Tomkins Instrumentation Thesis Prize from the Royal Astronomical Society.[7] Her graduate work focussed on building a payload known as the FOXSI Sounding Rocket.[8]
Research
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]
See also
- List of women in leadership positions on astronomical instrumentation projects
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "MIfA Public Lecture Series | University of Minnesota". http://www.astro.umn.edu/seminars/public/spring2017/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Lindsay Glesener". http://multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/Solar-Week/Meet-the-Scientists/Lindsay-Glesener.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Lindsay Glesener – Physics at Minnesota". https://www.physics.umn.edu/people/glesener.html.
- ↑ Glesener, Lindsay (2012-01-01). Faint Coronal Hard X-rays From Accelerated Electrons in Solar Flares. Bibcode: 2012PhDT.......218G. https://escholarship.org/content/qt64k848ff/qt64k848ff.pdf. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- ↑ "6-Minute NASA Rocket Launch Tracks Solar 'Nanoflares'". Space.com. https://www.space.com/18482-nasa-solar-nanoflares-telescope.html.
- ↑ "Straight Dope – The Berkeley Science Review". The Berkeley Science Review. http://berkeleysciencereview.com/article/straight-dope/.
- ↑ "RAS Ordinary Meeting". Astronomy & Geophysics 55 (4): 4.8. 2014-08-01. doi:10.1093/astrogeo/atu156. ISSN 1366-8781. Bibcode: 2014A&G....55d.4.8..
- ↑ "Mechanical Engineering Seminar Glesener Flier". http://www.bu.edu/eng/files/2016/01/ME.Seminar.Glesener-Flier.pdf.
- ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award#1429512 - Faculty Development in Space Physics at the University of Minnesota". https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1429512.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Lindsay Glesener | UMN Small Satellite Project". http://smallsat.umn.edu/people/lindsay-glesener.
- ↑ "Team | FOXSI". http://foxsi.ssl.berkeley.edu/team/.
- ↑ Blumberg, Sara (2017-10-13). "NASA Sounding Rocket Instrument Spots Signatures of Small Solar Flares". NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-sounding-rocket-instrument-spots-signatures-of-long-sought-small-solar-flares.
- ↑ Christe, Steven; Glesener, Lindsay; Buitrago-Casas, Camilo; Ishikawa, Shin-Nosuke; Ramsey, Brian; Gubarev, Mikhail; Kilaru, Kiranmayee; Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J. et al. (March 2016). "FOXSI-2: Upgrades of the Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager for its Second Flight". Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation 05 (1): 1640005–1640625. doi:10.1142/s2251171716400055. Bibcode: 2016JAI.....540005C.
- ↑ "Nanoflares in the sun's plasma may cause its scalding atmosphere". New Scientist. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2149671-nanoflares-in-the-suns-plasma-may-cause-its-scalding-atmosphere/.
- ↑ "General News – Physics at Minnesota". https://www.physics.umn.edu/about/news/general/12412/Glesener_receives_NSF_CAREER_Award.
- ↑ "NSF awards more than $150 million to early career researchers in engineering and computer science | NSF – National Science Foundation". https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=295790&org=NSF&from=news.
- ↑ Athiray, P. Subramania; Glesener, Lindsay; Courtade, Sasha; Vievering, Juliana; Buitrago-Casas, Juan Camilo; Furukawa, Kento; Ishikawa, Shin-nosuke; Narukage, Noriyuki et al. (2018-07-10). The FOXSI-3 sounding rocket experiment (Conference Presentation). 10699. pp. 83. doi:10.1117/12.2313707. ISBN 9781510619517.
- ↑ O’Connell, Claire (2018-06-19). "How can x-rays help reveal the mysteries of the sun?". Silicon Republic. https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/lindsay-glesener-sun-xray-physics.
- ↑ CSUSonoma (2014-10-09), What Physicists Do – October 6, 2014 – Dr. Lindsay Glesener, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcREpnZGzuU, retrieved 2018-08-24
- ↑ College of Science and Engineering, UMN (2017-04-10), "Exploring the Mysteries of the Sun: Explosions on our Closest Star" – MN Institute for Astrophysics, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4U3afFMTYQ, retrieved 2018-08-24
- ↑ "RHESSI 17 – 17th RHESSI Workshop". http://rhessi17.lofar.ie/.
- ↑ "PIO abstract search – 2018 AGU Fall Meeting". 2018 AGU Fall Meeting. https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/pio-abstract-search/?sectionfocus_group-2=SPA-Solar+and+Heliospheric+Physics&l=%252F2018%252Fpio-abstract-search%252F&abstract_search=1&simian_search=1&abstract_search_paged=39.
- ↑ "S & P Seminar". www.cfa.harvard.edu/. 2017-11-27. https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/stars-planets-seminar/s-p-seminar-52.
- ↑ "SPD Committee | AAS Solar Physics Division". https://spd.aas.org/about/spd-committee.
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