August 2012 - Present | Associate Professor, San Jose State University ‐ Physics and Astronomy | |
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October 2012 - Present | Research Associate, University of California, Santa Cruz ‐ Observatories | |
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July 2007 - September 2012 | Associate Specialist, University of California, Santa Cruz ‐ Observatories | |
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October 2004 - June 2007 | Researcher in Astronomy, University of Conception ‐ Department of Physics | |
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2005 | Visiting Adjunct Professor, National University of La Plata ‐ Astronomical and Geophysical Sciences | |
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June 2002 - October 2004 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Nottingham ‐ School of Physics and Astronomy | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
2014 | San Jose State University, Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity award |
San Jose State University | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
$2,000 | |
2009 - 2013 | Probing the Fundamental Halo Properties of Early-type Galaxies Using a New Technique for Wide-field Stellar Kinematics |
National Science Foundation - AST-0909237 | |
National Science Foundation, Astronomy & Astrophysics Grant | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
$354,987 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
2011 - Present | Science Case Collaborator, The Synoptic All-Sky Infrared Survey | 2012 - 2013 | Referee, Astronomy & Astrophysics | 2012 | Referee, Canadian Time Allocation Comittee Gemini Telescope | 2010 - 2012 | Referee, The Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2010 - 2011 | Organizer, Journal Club, UCO/UCSC | 2010 | Panel Review, National Science Foundation | 2004 - 2009 | Referee, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, | 2008 | Member, Colloquium Committee, UCO/UCSC | 2007 | Referee, Canadian Time Allocation Committee Gemini Telescope | 2007 | Referee, The Astrophysical Journal | 2004 - 2007 | Member, FONDAP Centro de Astrof´isica | 2004 - 2007 | Member, Sociedad Chilena de Astronomia | 2006 | Member, Chilean Telescope Allocation Committee | 2006 | Referee, Science | 2005 - 2006 | Organizer, Internal seminar series, Astronomy group, Universidad de Concepci´on | 2005 | Referee, Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters | 2005 | Referee, Nature | 2004 | Referee, PATT/Gemini Observatory | 2004 | Referee, PATT/William Herschel Telescope | 2003 - 2004 | Organiser, Lunchtime Astronomy Talks, Univ Nottingham |
Honors and Awards
- Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 1996
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 1994
- University of California Regents Scholarship, 1990–1994
- National Merit Scholarship, 1990–1991
Courses
- PHYS 140, Computational Methods in Physics (seminar + lab), San Jos´e State University, Aug.–Dec. 2012
- PHYS 240, Computational Physics, San Jos´e State University, Jan.–May 2013
- ASTR 155, Topics in Modern Astronomy, San Jos´e State University, Jan.–May 2013
1999 | Ph.D., Harvard University ‐ Astronomy | |
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1996 | M.S., Harvard University ‐ Astronomy | |
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1994 | B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara ‐ Creative Studies / Physics | |
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Contact Information
aaron.romanowsky@sjsu.edu
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