Dr. Stella Offner

Biography

Stella S. R. Offner received her bachelor's degrees in Physics and Mathematics from Wellesley College in 2003. She completed her Ph.D. in Physics at the University of California at Berkeley in 2009. Afterward, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and was awarded the NASA Hubble prize postdoctoral fellowship at Yale from 2012 to 2014. In 2017, she joined the astronomy faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, prior to which she served as an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Offner is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the NSF Career Award and the Cottrell Scholar Award. She is a core faculty member at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences and serves as the Co-Director of the Center for Scientific Machine Learning. Her research focuses on understanding the formation of stars similar to the Sun through numerical simulations and observations, with a particular interest in applying statistical techniques and machine learning to analyze data and identify physical characteristics of forming stars.

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