Alumni Career Talk with Alexandra Amon
Alumni Career Talk with Alexandra Amon
- Event time: 1:10pm until 1:50pm
- Event date: 5th June 2024
- Speaker: Alexandra Amon (Princeton)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
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Alexandra grew up in the tiny islands of Trinidad & Tobago, and is now an Assistant Prof in Astrophysics at Princeton University. Alexandra studied at the University of Edinburgh on an Island Scholarship. There, she received a First Class (Hons) undergraduate (MPhys) degree in astrophysics and a PhD with Catherine Heymans and Chris Blake. Then she was a Kavli Fellow at Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Stanford in Risa Wechsler’s Galaxy formation and cosmology group. Alexandra was also a Senior Kavli Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and a Senior Researcher at Trinity College.
Alexandra is passionate about science outreach and an advocate for making STEM fields more accessible and welcoming to everyone.
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