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Jenny Greene (born October 9, 1978) is an Astrophysicist and Professor at Princeton University.[1] She is notable for her work on supermassive black holes and the galaxies in which they reside.

Early life and education

In 2000, Greene received a B.S in astronomy and physics (summa cum laude) from Yale University. She then attended Harvard for her Ph.D in Astronomy, her thesis entitled The Growth of Black Holes: From Primordial Seeds to Local Demographics.[2]

Career

After her post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton, she became an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at UT Austin for a year. Since 2011, she has been an Assistant Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton.

Her broad research interests include measurements of black hole masses, the connection between supermassive black holes and galaxies, stellar and gas kinematics of galactic nuclei, and diffuse light in galaxy clusters.[3]

Greene serves on the Leadership Committee of the Prison Teaching Initiative at Princeton University.[4]

Awards and honors

• 2000: Phi Beta Kappa
• 2000: Yale University, George Beckwith Prize in Astronomy
• 2002-2003: Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
• 2001–2003: NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship
• 2006–2009: Hubble Fellow
• 2006–2010: Carnegie-Princeton Fellow
• 2008: AAS, Annie Jump Cannon Award
• 2009: Harvard University Astronomy Department, The Bok Prize
• 2011: Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship

References

External links

• Prison Teaching Initiative
• Jenny Greene at Princeton University Department of Astrophysical Sciences

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