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Lindsay Glesener

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Lindsay Glesener
Glesener and rocket
Alma materSan Francisco State University
University of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Minnesota
ThesisFaint Coronal Hard X-rays From Accelerated Electrons in Solar Flares (2012)

Lindsay Erin Glesener is a professor in the Institute for Astrophysics at the University of Minnesota . She is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award researcher and lead investigator on the FOXSI Sounding Rocket.

Early life and education

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Glesener grew up near Lake Superior.[1] After Glesener graduated from high school she worked briefly as a ballet dancer.[2] Glesener completed her bachelor's degree at San Francisco State University, graduating in 2006.[3] She joined the University of California, Berkeley for her graduate studies, earning a Masters in 2009 and a PhD in 2012. Her thesis, Faint Coronal Hard X-rays From Accelerated Electrons in Solar Flares, was supervised by Robert Lin and Säm Krucker.[4][5] Whilst a PhD student she wrote for the Berkeley Science Review.[6] For her thesis she was awarded the Tomkins Instrumentation Thesis Prize from the Royal Astronomical Society.[7] Her graduate work focussed on building a payload known as the FOXSI Sounding Rocket.[8]

Research

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She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley for two years before joining the University of Minnesota in 2014.[2] She was promoted to assistant professor in 2015.[3] She was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to expand the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Minnesota.[9]

Glesener is the PI of the FOXSI Sounding Rocket.[10][11] FOXSI detects Hard X-rays which are a signature of extraordinarily hot solar material.[12] The rocket payload flew in 2014, using a Solar Aspect and Alignment System and Hard X-rays Spectroscopy to obtain focussed images of the sun.[13] She also works on small CubeSats.[1][10] In 2017 Glesener identified that nanoflares (small explosions) in the plasma of the sun may cause the scalding temperatures in the solar corona.[14]

In 2018 she was awarded an NSF Career Award, allowing her to link high-energy solar and astrophysics.[15][16] FOXSI 3 launched on August 21, 2018.[17] Glesener wants to identify how particles are accelerated in the most high-energy events that occur in the sun, including explosions, flares and plasma ejections.[18]

Glesener has given invited talks at academic conferences and colleges.[19][20][21][22][23] She is on the Solar Physics Division committee of the American Astronomical Society.[24]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "MIfA Public Lecture Series | University of Minnesota". Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  2. ^ a b "Lindsay Glesener". multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  3. ^ a b "Lindsay Glesener – Physics at Minnesota". www.physics.umn.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  4. ^ Glesener, Lindsay (2012-01-01). "Faint Coronal Hard X-rays From Accelerated Electrons in Solar Flares" (PDF). UC Berkeley. Bibcode:2012PhDT.......218G. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
  5. ^ "6-Minute NASA Rocket Launch Tracks Solar 'Nanoflares'". Space.com. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  6. ^ "Straight Dope – The Berkeley Science Review". The Berkeley Science Review. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  7. ^ "RAS Ordinary Meeting". Astronomy & Geophysics. 55 (4): 4.8. 2014-08-01. Bibcode:2014A&G....55d.4.8.. doi:10.1093/astrogeo/atu156. ISSN 1366-8781.
  8. ^ "Mechanical Engineering Seminar Glesener Flier" (PDF). Boston University. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  9. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1429512 - Faculty Development in Space Physics at the University of Minnesota". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  10. ^ a b "Lindsay Glesener | UMN Small Satellite Project". smallsat.umn.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  11. ^ "Team | FOXSI". foxsi.ssl.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  12. ^ Blumberg, Sara (2017-10-13). "NASA Sounding Rocket Instrument Spots Signatures of Small Solar Flares". NASA. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  13. ^ Christe, Steven; Glesener, Lindsay; Buitrago-Casas, Camilo; Ishikawa, Shin-Nosuke; Ramsey, Brian; Gubarev, Mikhail; Kilaru, Kiranmayee; Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J.; Watanabe, Shin (March 2016). "FOXSI-2: Upgrades of the Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager for its Second Flight". Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation. 05 (1): 1640005–1640625. arXiv:2403.07610. Bibcode:2016JAI.....540005C. doi:10.1142/s2251171716400055.
  14. ^ "Nanoflares in the sun's plasma may cause its scalding atmosphere". New Scientist. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  15. ^ "General News – Physics at Minnesota". www.physics.umn.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  16. ^ "NSF awards more than $150 million to early career researchers in engineering and computer science | NSF – National Science Foundation". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  17. ^ Athiray, P. Subramania; Glesener, Lindsay; Courtade, Sasha; Vievering, Juliana; Buitrago-Casas, Juan Camilo; Furukawa, Kento; Ishikawa, Shin-nosuke; Narukage, Noriyuki; Takahashi, Tadayuki (2018-07-10). The FOXSI-3 sounding rocket experiment (Conference Presentation). Vol. 10699. p. 83. doi:10.1117/12.2313707. ISBN 9781510619517. S2CID 125780762.
  18. ^ O’Connell, Claire (2018-06-19). "How can x-rays help reveal the mysteries of the sun?". Silicon Republic. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  19. ^ CSUSonoma (2014-10-09), What Physicists Do – October 6, 2014 – Dr. Lindsay Glesener, retrieved 2018-08-24
  20. ^ College of Science and Engineering, UMN (2017-04-10), "Exploring the Mysteries of the Sun: Explosions on our Closest Star" – MN Institute for Astrophysics, retrieved 2018-08-24
  21. ^ "RHESSI 17 – 17th RHESSI Workshop". rhessi17.lofar.ie. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  22. ^ "PIO abstract search – 2018 AGU Fall Meeting". 2018 AGU Fall Meeting. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  23. ^ "S & P Seminar". www.cfa.harvard.edu/. 2017-11-27. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  24. ^ "SPD Committee | AAS Solar Physics Division". spd.aas.org. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
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