BIO

Eve Ostriker is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Maryland, where she has been a faculty member since 1996. At Maryland she not only teaches but conducts research in a number of areas in theoretical and computational astrophysics. Among her many research interests are star and planet formation, the dynamics and thermodynamics of the interstellar medium (ISM), protostellar disk accretion and disk-protoplanet interactions, galactic-scale origins of star-forming clouds, and causes and effects of turbulence in the diffuse ISM. During her Guggenheim Fellowship term, she will be studying the large-scale regulation of star formation.

Ms. Ostriker is a graduate of Harvard University (A.B. in physics, magna cum laude, 1987) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. in physics, 1993). Her graduate work was supported by a three-year NSF Graduate Fellowship (1989-92) and an International Amelia Earhart Fellowship Award (1992-93). She remained at Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher for a year after receiving her Ph.D. in order to complete a project on magnetized protostellar flows. She was then awarded a three-year Harvard-Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship for independent research at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During these years, she developed her technical expertise in computational fluid dynamics.

Her expertise in her field has led to her receiving numerous grants from NASA and the NSF, and to invitations to speak at such respected venues as MIT; the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; University of California campuses at Berkeley, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz; Harvard; Johns Hopkins; Princeton; and Caltech, among many others. She has been on the advisory committee of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of the NSF, and on two long-term advisory panels on astronomy and astrophysics for the NSF/National Research Council. She was also invited to coauthor, with Christopher F. McKee, a major review on large- and small-scale aspects of star formation, which was published in Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics (2007).

Other recent publications by Ms. Ostriker include (with Hao Gong) “Protostar Formations in Supersonic Flows: Growth and Collapse of Spherical Cores” and (with Hiroshi Koyama) “Gas Properties and Implications for Galactic Star Formations in Numerical Models of the Turbulent, Multiphase Interstellar Medium,” both published in The Astrophysical Journal in 2009.

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