Jenny Greene (born October 9, 1978) is an Astrophysicist and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

. She is notable for her work on

supermassive black hole A supermassive black hole (SMBH or sometimes SBH) is the largest type of black hole, with its mass being on the order of hundreds of thousands, or millions to billions, of times the mass of the Sun (). Black holes are a class of astronomical ...

s and the galaxies in which they reside. Her work also involves a partnership with the Princeton Gravity Initiative and as co-founder and academic advisor to the Prison Teaching Initiative (PTI) at Princeton University.

Biography

In 2000, Greene received a B.S. in astronomy and physics (summa cum laude) from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. She moved to

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher lear ...

where she earned her Ph.D. in astronomy, with a thesis entitled ''The Growth of Black Holes: From Primordial Seeds to Local Demographics''. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton, she became an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at

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. Since 2011, she has been a faculty member in the Astrophysical Sciences department at Princeton where she is currently a Professor of astrophysics. Her broad research interests include measurements of black hole masses, the connection between supermassive black holes and galaxies, stellar and gas kinematics of galactic nuclei, and diffuse light in galaxy clusters. In a 2022 study, "The Nature of Low-surface-brightness Galaxies in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey" Greene utilizes imaging technology to study in the ability to distinguish and identify low-surface-brightness galaxies. The PTI provides college-level education and other educational opportunities, such as research experiences for undergraduate students, to the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated in New Jersey correctional facilities. Greene has been involved in the effort and growth of the PTI as a post-doc fellow at Princeton since its founding in 2005 and as academic advisor of the program in 2017, when REUs through PTI began.

Awards and honors

* 2000:

Phi Beta Kappa The Phi Beta Kappa Society () is the oldest academic honor society in the United States. It was founded in 1776 at the College of William & Mary in Virginia. Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal arts and sciences, ...

* 2000:

, George Beckwith Prize in Astronomy * 2002-2003: Certificate of Distinction in Teaching * 2001–2003: NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship * 2006–2009: Hubble Fellow * 2006–2010: Carnegie-Princeton Fellow * 2008: AAS, Annie Jump Cannon Award * 2009:

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Astronomy Department, The Bok Prize * 2011: Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship

References

External links

Prison Teaching Initiative

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Department of Astrophysical Sciences {{DEFAULTSORT:Greene, Jenny Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni American women astrophysicists 1978 births Princeton University faculty Yale University alumni Living people American astrophysicists Recipients of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy