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Appendix D: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix D: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 113-122
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She was one of the pioneers of wide-area radio surveys with the Very Large Array radio telescope, work that led to the discovery of the first Einstein ring gravitational lens. Her current research involves low-frequency radio studies of the " osmic Dawn," C the formation of the first stars and galaxies, and surveys of transient stronomical a radio emission.
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He is a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory (LIGO) scientific collaboration and the North American Nanohertz Gravitational Observatory (NANOGrav)
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. His recent research has focused on understanding the triggering mechanisms in active galaxies, the nature of ultra-luminous X-ray sources and whether they are intermediate black holes, the evolution of active galaxies across cosmic time, the nature of the inner ost regions m around supermassive black holes, and the physics of clusters of galaxies and their use as tracers of metal production in the universe.
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His main research area is X-ray studies of galaxy clusters and their applications for cosmology and physics of the intergalactic medium. His research also includes collaboration with the South Pole Telescope team on X-ray observations of clusters discovered by their Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal, improve ments in the cluster mass calibration using weak lensing techniques, studies of interplay between stellar and gaseous baryonic components in clusters, helping theorists to improve the intracluster medium modeling in numerical simulations, and also helping to make sure that a next-generation all-sky X-ray survey (e.g., SRG/eRosita or WFXT)
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He has received numerous scientific and group achievement awards from NASA, an MIT excellence in teaching award, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the National Space Club Science Award, the Medaille de l'ADION Observatoire de Nice, the Gruber Cosmology Prize, and the Einstein Prize of the APS.
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He is a member of the NAS and has served on the Academies' Beyond Einstein Program Assessment Committee, the Committee to study Autonomy Research in Civil Aviation, the Committee to study NASA's Planned Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets program (WFIRST-AFTA) , and the Committee for Review of the Federal Aviation Administration Research Plan on Certification of New Technologies into the National Airspace System.
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His prior Academies membership includes the Committee on Survey of Surveys: Lessons Learned from the Decadal Survey Process, the Committee on the Assessment of the Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets (AFTA) Mission Concepts, the Planning Committee on Lessons Learned in Decadal Planning in Space: A Workshop, the Committee on the Planetary Science Decadal Survey: 2013-2022, the Panel on Implementing Recommendations from New Worlds, New Horizons Decadal Survey, the Committee on the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2010, and the SSB as vice chair.
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He has also been involved in reviewing of NASA's space technology roadmaps and oversaw a major report on the rationale for and future direction of the U.S. human spaceflight program, as well as reports on issues such as NASA's strategic direction; lessons learned from the decadal survey processes; the science promise of CubeSats; the challenge of orbital debris; the future of NASA's astronaut corps; NASA's aeronautical flight research program; and national research agendas for autonomy and low-carbon propulsion in civil aviation.
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Prior to joining the BPA, Dr. Lancaster served on faculty at Rice University, where he taught introductory physics to science and engineering students, and as a staff researcher, where he participated in experimental investigations of the interactions of highly excited atoms with electro agnetic m pulses and surfaces.
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