Jacqueline K. (Jackie)Faherty is an American astronomer specializing ininfrared astronomy and the observation ofnearby stars and brown dwarfs, and known for her public outreach in space science. She works at theAmerican Museum of Natural History as a senior scientist in the museum's Department of Astrophysics and a senior education manager in the Department of Education.[1]
Faherty is a 2001 graduate of theUniversity of Notre Dame.[2] She entered college intending to major in business, but switched to physics after being inspired by the movieContact and byJodie Foster's role in it as a space scientist.[3] She went toStony Brook University for graduate study in physics and astronomy, earning a master's degree there in 2006 and completing her Ph.D. in 2010. Her thesis advisors were Adam Burgasser of theUniversity of California, San Diego, Michael Shara of the American Museum of Natural History, and Frederick M. Walter of Stony Brook.[2]
Before joining the American Museum of Natural History staff, she did postdoctoral research as aNational Science Foundation Fellow at theNational Astronomical Observatory of Chile from 2011 to 2013, and as aHubble Fellow in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of theCarnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC from 2013 to 2016.[2]
TheAmerican Astronomical Society (AAS) gave Faherty their 2020Vera Rubin Early Career Award, "in recognition of Dr. Faherty’s work on the kinematics of very faint stars in the Milky Way as well as her leadership in developing unique ways to engage the public and professional science teams with ... the precise measurement of celestial objects’ positions and motions on the sky".[4] Faherty was elected to the 2022 class of AAS Fellows, "for outstanding accomplishments in the study of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets; a dedication to public outreach; and service as an advocate, role model, and mentor to astronomers from underrepresented groups".[5]
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