Jean P. Brodie is a British astrophysicist. She is professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and an astronomer at the Lick Observatory.^[1][2]

Education

Brodie has a B.Sc. from the University of London and a Ph.D. from Emmanuel College, Cambridge and the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.^[2]

Career

After her doctorate at Cambridge, Brodie became a post-doctoral fellow at University of California, Berkeley (1980–82), then a research fellow at Girton College, Cambridge and the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge (1982–84), and returned to UCB as an assistant research astronomer (1984–87). She took up a post of assistant professor/astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1987, and became associate professor/astronomer there in 1991 and professor/astronomer in 1997.^[1]

Her main research interests are globular star clusters and galaxy formation.^[1]

She founded the international research network Study of the Astrophysics of Globular Clusters in Extragalactic Systems (SAGES), from which developed the SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS Survey.^[3] Its short name, the SLUGGS Survey, honours the banana slug which is the mascot of UCSC.^[1]

She is a collaborator on the Hubble Heritage Project^[4] and a member of the International Astronomical Union.^[5]

Honors and awards

In 1990, Brodie was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in astronomy and astrophysics.^[6]

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