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Curriculum Vitae and Publications of Nadia L. Zakamska

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Contact Information
BH-145, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Dr., Princeton NJ 08540
tel.: (609)734-8077, fax: (609)951-4402, email:
web: http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~nadia
Research Interests
Observational astronomy including (but not limited to)
      Active Galactic Nuclei at all wavelengths
      Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies at all wavelengths
Theoretical astrophysics including (but not limited to)
      Outflows from compact objects
      Dynamics of stellar and planetary systems
Employment
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ,
Postdoctoral member (Spitzer fellowship), Sept 2005 - Aug 2008
Long-term member (John N. Bahcall fellowship), Jan 2008 - present
Education
Princeton University, Ph.D., Astrophysics, September 2005
Thesis: "Type II Quasars from the SDSS"
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
M.Sci. with honor, theoretical physics and astrophysics, June 2001

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
B.Sci. with honor, physics and mathematics, June 1999

Selected Awards
John N. Bahcall long-term fellowship (2008-present)
Spitzer postdoctoral fellowship (2005-2008)
Hubble postdoctoral fellowship (2005, declined)
Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship (2004, Princeton University)
Presidential and other fellowships (1997-1999, MIPT)
Gold Medal of MIPT (awarded to 10 graduates of class of 500 people, 2001, MIPT)
Student Supervision
Xin Liu (2008/09) -- graduate student, Princeton Univ., co-advising thesis projects with M.Strauss and J.Greene, one paper published in ApJ, one follow-up proposal approved, another one submitted

Reinabelle Reyes (2007) -- graduate student, Princeton Univ., pre-thesis project, paper published in AJ [also published as SDSS press release; poster received 2008 AAS Chambliss Award honorable mention]

Laura Gomez (2006) -- visiting graduate student, UNAM (Mexico), pre-thesis project, paper published in AJ

Joshua Green (2005/06) -- graduate student, Princeton Univ., pre-thesis project, paper published in AJ

Teaching Experience
English as foreign language, Physics, Mathematics 1995-2000, high school (up to 20 hours a week, 10 semesters)
Proposals and Observing Experience
Led the following accepted proposals:
Gemini (NIFS, Sept 2009, submitted)
APO 3.5m (Triplespec, spring 2009, summer 2009)
Gemini (GMOS, March 2006)
Chandra (March 2005, funded)
Spitzer (Feb 2005, Spitzer fellowship proposal)
XMM (Oct 2004, with A.Ptak)
Spitzer (Feb 2004, funded)
Gemini (GNIRS, Jan 2004)
MMT (SPOL, March 2003, March 2004)

Major participant in the following accepted proposals:
Gemini (GMOS, March 2009)
GLAST theory (Jan 2008, funded)
Magellan (LDSS-3, 2007-2008)
XMM (April 2003)
Chandra (March 2003, funded)
HST (Jan 2003, funded)

Classical mode observing experience:
Apache Point Observatory, 3.5m, June 2002
Multi-Mirror Telescope, April 2004

Professional Activies and Affiliations
  • Referee for A&A, AJ, ApJ, MNRAS, 2004-present

  • External reviewer, NASA review panel, 2009

  • Member (chair), NSF review panel, 2009

  • Member, Spitzer Space Telescope time allocation committee, 2008

  • Member, American Astronomical Society, 2002-present

  • Conducted Public Observing sessions at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, 2002

  • Created and maintained the graduate students' webpage of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, 2003-2005

  • Member of the undergraduate admissions committee, Department of General and Applied Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1997-2000

  • Member of the Russian National Physics Olympiad jury, 1996-1999
    • Languages
    Fortran, C, IDL, SuperMongo, LaTeX, html

    English, Russian, French (fluently), Spanish (intermediate level)

    Invited Presentations

  • Invited colloquia: Columbia (New York, NY, 11/2009); NYU (New York, NY, 10/2009); Caltech (Pasadena, CA, 01/09); MIT (Cambridge, MA, 01/08); CITA (Toronto, Canada, 01/08); Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD, 10/07); University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI, 09/07); University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ, 04/07) [visiting as Douglass Scholar]; MPA/MPE (Garching, Germany, 06/06); UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA, 11/05); MIT (Cambridge, MA, 03/05)

  • Invited review talk "Identification of AGN in optical surveys" at "Obscured AGN across cosmic time", Seeon, Germany, June 2007

  • Invited public talk "Black holes: seeing the invisible", Chicago, IL, May 2007

  • Invited public talk "The search for other worlds", Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, October 2006

  • Invited talk "Type II Quasars from the SDSS" at the special session "Multiwavelength Astronomy and the SDSS" of the 204th American Astronomical Society Meeting (Denver, CO, May 2004)

  • co-author of the invited review talk (with S.Tremaine) "Extrasolar planet orbits and eccentricities" at "The Search for Other Worlds", College Park MD, October, 2003; astro-ph/0312045
    • Current Projects

  • Zakamska, N.L., Pan, M., Ford, E.B., "Observational biases in determining extrasolar planet eccentricities" (paper in preparation; our August 2008 poster is here).

  • Zakamska, N.L., et al., "Spectral energy distributions of obscured quasars and selection of quasars at high redshifts" (paper in preparation)

  • Zakamska, N.L. & Begelman, M.C. "Stability of relativistic jets with toroidal magnetic fields"

  • I am also a collaborator on several observational projects in extragalactic astronomy
    • First and Second Author Refereed Publications

  • 15. Zakamska, N.L. 2009, Nature, in review, "On the origin of molecular hydrogen emission in ultraluminous infrared galaxies"

  • 14. Liu, X., Zakamska, N.L., Greene, J., et al. 2009, ApJ, 702, 1098, "Host galaxies of luminous type 2 quasars at z=0.5"; arXiv:0907.3491

  • 13. Greene, J.E., Zakamska, N.L., Liu, X., Barth, A., Ho, L.C. 2009, ApJ, 702, 441, "The growth of black holes: insights from obscured active galaxies"; arXiv:0907.1086

  • 12. Zakamska, N.L., Gomez, L., Strauss, M.A., Krolik, J.H. 2008, AJ, 136, 1607, "Mid-infrared spectra of optically selected type 2 quasars"; arXiv:0808.1893

  • 11. Zakamska, N.L., Begelman, M.C., & Blandford, R.D., 2008, ApJ, 679, 990, "Hot self-similar relativistic MHD flows"; arXiv:0801.1120

  • 10. Reyes, R.C., Zakamska, N.L., Strauss, M.A., Green, J.V., et al., 2008, AJ, 136, 2373, "Space density of optically-selected type 2 quasars from the SDSS"; arXiv:0801.1115

  • 9. Zakamska, N.L., Strauss, M.A., Krolik, J.H., et al. 2006, AJ, 132, 1496, "Type II Quasars from the SDSS: V. Imaging host galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope"; astro-ph/0603625

  • 8. Ptak, A., Zakamska, N.L., Strauss, M.A., et al., 2006, ApJ, 637, 147, "Type II Quasars from the SDSS: IV. Chandra and XMM-Newton observations reveal heavily absorbed sources"; astro-ph/0510204

  • 7. Zakamska, N.L. & Tremaine, S. 2005, AJ, 130, 1939, "Constraints on the acceleration of the solar system from high-precision timing"; astro-ph/0506548

  • 6. Zakamska, N.L., Schmidt, G.D., Smith, P.S., Strauss, M.A., et al., 2005, AJ, 129, 1212, "Type II Quasar Candidates from the SDSS: III. Spectropolarimetry Reveals Hidden Type I Nuclei"; astro-ph/0410054

  • 5. Zakamska, N.L., Strauss, M.A., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1002, "Type II Quasar Candidates from the SDSS: II. From Radio to X-rays"; astro-ph/0406248

  • 4. Zakamska, N.L. & Tremaine, S. 2004, AJ, 128, 869, "Excitation and propagation of eccentricity disturbances in planetary systems"; astro-ph/0404396

  • 3. Zakamska, N.L., Strauss, M.A., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 2125, "Type II Quasar Candidates from the SDSS: I. Selection and Optical Properties of a Sample at 0.3 < Z < 0.83"; astro-ph/0309551

  • 2. Zakamska, N.L. & Narayan, R. 2003, ApJ, 582, 162, "Models of Galaxy Clusters with Thermal Conduction"; astro-ph/0207127

  • 1. Beskin, V.S., Zakamska, N.L., & Sol, H. 2004, MNRAS, 347, 587 "Radiation drag effects on magnetically dominated outflows around compact objects"; astro-ph/0209572
    • Co-author (refereed publications)

  • 9. Richards, G.T., et al. 2008, AJ, 137, 3884, "Eight-Dimensional Mid-Infrared/Optical Bayesian Quasar Selection"; arXiv:0810.3567

  • 8. Hennawi, J.F., et al., 2006, ApJ, 651, 61, "Quasars Probing Quasars I: Optically Thick Absorbers Near Luminous Quasars"; astro-ph/0603742

  • 7. Collinge, M.J., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 2542, "Optically Identified BL Lacertae Objects from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"; astro-ph/0411620

  • 6. Hao, L., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1783, "Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: I. Sample Selection''; astro-ph/0501059

  • 5. Hao, L., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 795, "Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: II. Emission-Line Luminosity Function''; astro-ph/0501042

  • 4. Strateva, I.V., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 1720, "Double-peaked Low-Ionization Emission Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei"; astro-ph/0307357

  • 3. Abazajian, K., et al., 2003, AJ, 126, 2081, "The First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"; astro-ph/0305492

  • 2. Fan, X., et al. 2003, AJ, 125, 1649, "A Survey of z > 5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. II. Discovery of Three Additional Quasars at z > 6"; astro-ph/0301135

  • 1. Sukhanov, L.P., et al. 2001, Journal of Physical Chemistry (Russia), 75, 1808, "Nonempirical Models of Complexes with Linear H-Bonds"
    • Selected non-refereed publications

  • Zakamska, N.L., Schulz, A.E., et al. 2009, "Challenges facing young astrophysicists", State of Profession paper for the Decadal Survey; arXiv:0905.1986

  • Tremaine, S. & Zakamska, N.L. 2004, AIP conf. proc. v. 713 (eds. S.S.Holt & D.Deming), p. 243, "Extrasolar planet orbits and eccentricities", invited review; astro-ph/0312045