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.
Made First Zeeman Measurements of Magnetic Fields for Solor-Type Stars. Found Pauncity of Brown Dwarfs Orbiting Stars. Developed the method of Precise Doppler Measurements.
Discovered 70 of the first 100 Extrasolor Planets known. Found evidence that the Solar System maybe peculiar. Discoverd the first system of planets around a sun-like star.
Discovered first transiting planet around another star. Discovered the first candidate Saturn-Mass planets. Discovered the first extrasolar planet orbiting beyond 5AU.
Co-discovered the first Neptune-Sized Planets: Gliese 436b and 55 Cancri est.
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).
