Jenny Greene

Jenny Greene (born October 9, 1978) is an Astrophysicist and Professor at Princeton University.^[1] She is notable for her work on supermassive black holes and the galaxies in which they reside.

Greene got her B.S degree in 2000 from Yale University, majoring in Astronomy and Physics. She then attended Harvard for her Ph.D in Astronomy, her thesis entitled The Growth of Black Holes: From Primordial Seeds to Local Demographics..^[2] After her post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton, she became an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at UT Austin for a year. Since 2011, she has been an Assistant Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton.

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.^[3]

Awards and Honors

• The Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2011)
• The Bok Prize, Harvard Astronomy Department (2009)
• Annie Jump Cannon Award, AAS (2008)
• Carnegie-Princeton Fellow (2006–2010)
• Hubble Fellow (2006–2009)
• NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship (2001–2003)
• Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (2002–2003)
• Summa Cum Laude, Yale University (2000)
• George Beckwith Prize in Astronomy, Yale University (2000)
• Phi Beta Kappa (2000)

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