sci19046 — Announcement
New Scientific Staff Members in Tucson
September 18, 2019
The new national astronomy laboratory recently welcomed three new scientific staff members in Tucson.
New scientific staff members (left to right) Emma Beasor, Parker Fagrelius, and Sarah Logsdon
Emma Beasor received her PhD in June 2019 from Liverpool John Moores University under the supervision of Ben Davies. The recipient of a NASA Hubble Fellowship, she will continue her research on the evolution of cool supergiant stars, with the aim of further constraining the progenitor-supernova connection. Emma is “excited to be a part of such an active scientific community at the forefront of research in astronomy.”
Parker Fagrelius recently completed her PhD at UC Berkeley where she worked on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Survey (DESI). She will continue her work on DESI at Kitt Peak National Observatory as an Assistant Scientist, focusing on commissioning of the focal plate instrument and operations planning.
Sarah Logsdon has also joined Kitt Peak National Observatory as an Assistant Scientist and the NEID Instrument Scientist. Her research interests include exoplanets and brown dwarfs. She was previously a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where her research included development work on the NEID Port Adapter sub-assembly as a member of the NEID Instrument Team. She earned her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles.
