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Positions Held

Aug. 2008 -	University of California Santa Cruz Astrophysics Department Assistant Professor	Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Sep. 2005 - Aug. 2008	Princeton University Astrophysics Department Hubble, Spitzer, and Council on Science and Technology Postdoctoral Fellow	Princeton, NJ, USA

Education

Aug. 2005	University of California, Berkeley Doctor of Philosophy, Physics	Berkeley, CA, USA
May 2000	University of California, Berkeley Master of Arts, Physics	Berkeley, CA, USA
June 1998	Princeton University Bachelor of Arts, Physics with Certificate in Applied and Computational Mathematics, summa cum laude	Princeton, NJ, USA

Awards and Honors

2006	Offered membership in Princeton University Society of Fellows (declined due conflict with Hubble Fellowship)
2005	Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship
2005	NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined)
2005	Lyman Spitzer Postdoctoral Fellowship Princeton University
2005	Council on Science and Technology Postdoctoral Fellowship Princeton University
2005	Menzel Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
2005	Mary Elizabeth Uhl Dissertation Prize University of California, Berkeley
2001	NASA Graduate Student Researcher Program Fellowhsip
2000	Hertz Foundation Fellowship Finalist
1999	Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award University of California, Berkeley
1998	NSF Graduate Fellowship
1998	Kusaka Memorial Award Princeton University
1998	Elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi

Teaching and Community Service

• Princeton Project Inside. Founder and director, 12/2005 - present.
  PPI is a prison education program in which students, faculty, and staff at Princeton University teach free community college classes for inmates at Garden State Youth Correctional Facility
• Prison University Project. Advisory board member, director of math and science instruction, and instructor, 6/2000 - 8/2005.
  PUP is a non-profit (501(c)(3)) group that provides higher eduction to inmates at San Quentin State Prison and advocates for enhanced access to higher education for prisoners in California.
• UC Berkeley Physics Department. Graduate student instructor, 8/1998 - 5/1999.
• Princeton University Mathematics Department. Grader, 2/1996 - 6/1996.