Rebekah Dawson

Rebekah Dawson is an American astrophysicist.[1]

Career

In 2009, Rebekah Dawson received a B.A. in astrophysics at Wellesley College. She then went to Harvard University where she got a A.M. in Astronomy in (2011) and a Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics supervised by Ruth Murray-Clay in 2013. She went on to her postdoctoral research at the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science from 2013 to 2015. In January 2016, she started working as an assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University.[2]

Awards

In 2017, she was awarded the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy "for her work modeling the dynamical interactions of exoplanets in multiplanet systems".[3][4]

In 2018, Dawson was named as an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow.[5]

References
  1. "Rebekah (Bekki) Dawson". www.personal.psu.edu.
  2. "Her CV" (PDF). psu.edu.
  3. "Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy - American Astronomical Society". aas.org.
  4. "Rebekah Dawson awarded Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy - Penn State University". psu.edu.
  5. "2018 Fellows". sloan.org.
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