Alice Eve Shapley is an astronomer at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).Alice Shapley She was one of the discoverers of the spiral galaxy BX442.
Education Shapley received a degree in astronomy, astrophysics, and physics at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges in 1997, and a Ph.D. in astronomy at the California Institute of Technology in 2003. Her PhD was on the properties of Lyman-break galaxies.Alice Shapley
Research areas Shapley's research areas are galaxy formation and evolution, the feedback processes in starburst galaxies, stellar populations at high redshift, and the evolution of the inter-galactic medium at high redshift. Through her research she has acquired over $5 million in research funding.
Employment Since 2013, Shapley has held the position of department of physics and astronomy professor.Alice Shapley From 2003 to 2005 while at the University of California at Berkley she was a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow.Alice Shapley She has also held the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 2005 to 2008, as well as Assistant Professor in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences from 2008 to 2013.Alice Shapley She has also spent time teaching at Princeton in the areas of astronomy and physics.
Publications Shapley has been a co-author on over 400 scientific papers. She is the primary author of over 80 papers.
Awards and honors
1997, Leo Goldberg Prize, Harvard 1997-1998, Virginia Gilloon Fellowship, California Institute of Technology 1998-2001, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 2006–2008, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship 2006–2011, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship 2009–2010, Member of "Galaxies Across Cosmic Time" Science Frontier Panel for Astro2010 Decadal Survey 2010, McMaster Cosmology Lecture, University of Toledo 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy Teaching Award 2012, UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy Teacher of the Year 2014, Marc Aaronson Memorial Lecture, University of Arizona 2016, Distinguished Women Scholar Series Lecturer, University of Victoria 2018, Biermann Lecturer, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics 2019, Kavli Lecturer, American Astronomical Society Meeting 2019-2020, Nominated Participant, UCLA Faculty Leadership Academy 2021, Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society 2022, 132nd Faculty Research Lecturer, UCLA 2025, Fellow of the American Astronomical Society
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(Lecture Traveling Back in Time to the Birth of Galaxies begins at 4:58 in video.)