Generate a tailored SOP for Dr. Tereasa Brainerd. Improve your application with a focused, well-structured draft.
Tereasa Brainerd earned her PhD in Astronomy from Ohio State University in 1992, with a dissertation focused on numerical simulations of structure formation in the Cold Dark Matter Universe. She joined the faculty of Boston University in 1995 after holding postdoctoral positions at the California Institute of Technology and Los Alamos National Laboratory. During her tenure, she has served as the Director of the Institute for Astrophysical Research for six years and as Chair of the Department of Astronomy for another six years. She also held the position of Trustee-at-Large for the American Astronomical Society from 2018 to 2021. Her research interests include satellite galaxies as probes of dark matter halos, weak gravitational lensing, intrinsic alignments of galaxies, galaxy clustering, and numerical simulations of structure formation. Recently, her work has focused on studying the spatial velocity distributions of satellite galaxies and their observed properties in large simulations. As a member of the Interdisciplinary Cosmology Group at Boston University, she collaborates with members from various departments including Astronomy, Physics, and Data Sciences.
Department of Law offers JD, LLM, and Master's in Study of Tax Law.