CURRICULUM VITAE

Gregory Alan Shields


Date: July 10, 2001
Permanent Address: Department of Astronomy
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712
Phone/e-mail 512-471-1402/shields@astro.as.utexas.edu
Education: Stanford University, 1964-1968;
B.S. (Physics) June, 1968
California Institute of Technology, 1969-1972;
M.S. (Astronomy) June, 1969;
Ph.D. (Astronomy) June, 1973
Dissertation: "The Ionization Structure and Emission Line Intensities of Seyfert Galaxy Nuclei"

Permanent Positions Held: 1972-1974 Research Fellow, Harvard College Observatory
1974-1979 Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin
1979-1985 Associate Professor
1985-1988 Professor
1988- The Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor in Astronomy
1990-1994 Chairman, Department of Astronomy

Visiting and Temporary Positions: 1979 Invited Summer Faculty Employee, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
1980, 1987 Research Associate in Astronomy, University of California Santa Cruz, California
1981 Visiting Associate in Astronomy, Institute of Technology
1984 Invited Professor, Meudon Observatory, University of Paris
1986 Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley
1987 Member, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
1990 Invited Visitor, Institute of Astrophysics, Paris
1996 Invited Visitor, Center for Astrophysics and Space Science, University of California, San Diego
1999 Member, Workshop on Black Hole Astrophysics, Institute for Theoretical Physics , University of California, San Diego

Professional Societies: American Astronomical Society
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
International Astronomical Union
Royal Astronomical Society

Research Fields: Emission lines and energy source of active galactic nuclei
Chemical composition of galaxies and nebulae

Awards and Honorary Societies: 1967 Phi Beta Kappa
1968-1972 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
1979-1983 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
1994 Phi Kappa Phi