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Dr. Shardha Jogee Department of Astronomy The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station C1400 Austin, TX 78712-0259 Email: sj@astro.as.utexas.edu Phone: (512) 471 1395 Fax : (512) 471 6016 Office : PMA 15.326 URL : http://www.as.utexas.edu/~sj |
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Dr. Shardha Jogee is a Professor in the Astronomy Department and the holder of the Rex G. Baker, Jr. and McDonald Centennial Professorship at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin. She served as the Department Chair from 2015 to 2019. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Cambridge in England, and Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Astronomy from Yale University in the USA. Prior to joining the faculty at UT Austin, Dr. Jogee conducted research at Caltech and the Space Telescope Science Institute, which oversees the scientific operations of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. At UT, Dr. Jogee's scientific research explores how galaxies and their constituent stars, black holes and dark matter halos grow across cosmic time, using NASA's space telescopes, McDonald Observatory and other ground telescopes, and the Texas Advanced Computing Center. She is a member of several international science teams, has won over $3.8 M in external grants and authored over 200 publications with over 8,600 citations. Dr. Jogee is an alumna of Leadership Texas 2014 and a Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project. She strongly supports a broader participation of young women and under-represented groups in STEM and the essential partnership between researchers, government, the private sector, and philanthropists in advancing higher education and society. |
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The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), the deepest visible-light image ever made of the Universe, (Credit: NASA, ESA, S Beckwith and HUDF home team ) shows the first galaxies to emerge from the so-called "dark ages," (the time shortly after the big bang when the first stars reheated the cold, dark universe), and chronicles a period when the universe was younger and more chaotic, with violent interactions between galaxies.
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