Education
Bachelor in Physics & Astronomy summa cum laude, University of California at Los Angeles, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy in Astronomy & Astrophysics, University California, Santa Cruz, 1982.
Bachelor in Physics & Astronomy summa cum laude, University of California at Los Angeles, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy in Astronomy & Astrophysics, University California, Santa Cruz, 1982.
Fellow Carnegie Institute, Washington, 1982—1984. Full professor physics & astronomy San Francisco State University, 1984—1996, distinguished university professor, 1997—1999, adjunct professor physics & astronomy, since 1999. Professor astronomy University California, Berkeley, since 1999.
Member Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy, 1994—1997, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Working Group: Origins of Solar Systems, 1998—2000, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Working Group: Terrestrial Planet Finder, 1998—2001. Director Center for Integrative Planetary Science, since 2000. Bunyan lecturer, physics department Stanford University, 1997.
G. Darwin Lecture Royal Astronomical Society, 2000. National Science Foundation Distinguished Lecturer, 00. Principal investigator National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Interferometry Mission, 2001.
Sackler Lecturer University Leiden, 2001. Niels Bohr Lecture New Brunswick Institute, 2005.
Fellow: California Academy of Science. Member: National Academy of Sciences (Henry Draper medal 2001), Astronomical Society of Pacific (board directors 1997-1999, public board 1997—2002), American Astronomical Society (board of councilors 1998—2000, Beatrice M. Tinsley prize 2002).