Dr. Lauren Corlies joined the LSST EPO Team as the Astronomy Outreach Specialist in October of 2018 and was promoted to EPO Deputy in Julyl 2019. In this role, Lauren contributes to all aspects of the EPO program. Examples include participating in the design of online notebooks that describe relevant astronomical concepts, contributing to written features throughout the website, curating content for the Skyviewer and science pages, overseeing support for citizen science PIs, liaising with members of LSST Science Collaborations, and assuring the scientific validity of EPO deliverables.
Lauren is bringing her astronomy expertise to the EPO Team. She recently completed a postdoc position at John Hopkins after receiving her PhD from Columbia. Her research has focused in general on the analysis of cosmological simulations and in particular on trying to understand the role and importance of the circumgalactic medium in galaxy evolution through simulated predictions of emission.
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[1] mailto:lcorlies@lsst.org