Jedidah Isler

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Adam Savage (left) and Jamie Hyneman (right), astrophysicist Jedidah Isler (second from left) and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (second from right) during the second astronomy night at the White House on October 19, 2015

Jedidah Isler is an American astrophysicist and university professor . She is the first African American woman to graduate from Yale University with a PhD in astrophysics . She studies blazars - supermassive hyperactive black holes that emit powerful jet streams. These are the most efficient particle accelerators in the universe and transfer energy through galaxies.

life and work

Isler grew up with a sister in Niagara Falls, New York and later in Virginia Beach , Virginia . She studied physics at the Dozoretz National Institute for Mathematics and Applied Sciences (DNIMAS) at Norfolk State University with a bachelor's degree Magna Cum Laude. She then studied at Fisk University , earned a Master of Arts and then a Master of Science from Yale University . She received her PhD from Yale University as the first African American woman to study astrophysics. In 2014 she published her dissertation: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Lion: Probing the Disk-Jet Connection in Fermi Gamma-Ray Bright Blazars, which was awarded the Roger Doxsey Dissertation Prize of the American Astronomical Society . From 2013 to 2015 she completed a two-year faculty scholarship at Syracuse University . In 2014 she received the Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Future Faculty Leaders at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University . In 2015 she received a National Science Foundation (NSF) postdoctoral fellowship in astronomy and astrophysics and did research in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vanderbilt University . In 2018 she became Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College .

In 2015, she founded VanguardSTEM, a monthly live web series with a rotating group of women in STEM, discussing a variety of topics including their research interests. In 2016 she was featured in Vanity Fair (magazine) in a profile called "Saluting a New Guard of STEM Stars". She participated in two episodes of the documentary series "How the Universe Works", in which astronomical phenomena were described and astrophysical theories were explained. In the television series "Genius of Stephen Hawking " and the television series "Mars" from National Geographic she also acted with.

Publications (selection)

  • Isler, JC, Bailyn, C., Urry, CM, Coppi, P., Brady, M., MacPherson, E., Buxton, M., Hasan, I .: A Consolidated Framework of the Color Variability in Blazars: Long- Term Optical Infrared Observations of 3C 279, The Astrophysical Journal, 2016.
  • Isler, JC, Urry, CM, Bailyn, C., Smith, PS, Brady, M., Coppi, P., MacPherson, E., Hasan, I, Buxton, M.: The SMARTS Multi-epoch Optical Spectroscopy Atlas ( SaMOSA): An Analysis of the Emission Line Variability in Southern Hemisphere Fermi Blazars, The Astrophysical Journal, 2015.
  • Isler, JC Urry, CM, Coppi, P., Bailyn, C., Chatterjee, R., Fossati, G., Bonning, EW, Maraschi, L., Buxton, M .: A Time-Resolved Look at the Broad Line Region in Blazar 3C 454.3, The Astrophysical Journal, 2013.
  • Tavecchio, F., Pacciani, L., Donnarumma, I., Stamerra, A., Isler, JC, MacPherson, E., Urry, CM: The Far Emission Region of the Gamma-Ray Blazar PKS B1424-418 ", Monthy Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013.
  • Chatterjee, R., Fossati, G., Urry, CM, Bailyn, C., Maraschi, L., Buxton, M., Bonning, EW, Isler, JC, Coppi, P .: An Optical-Near-Infrared Outburst with No Accompanying Gamma-Rays in the Blazar PKS 0208-512, The Astrophysical Journal Letter, 2013.
  • Bonning, EW, Urry, CM, Bailyn, M., Buxton, M., Chatterjee, R., Coppi, P., Fossati, G., Isler, JC, Maraschi, L .: SMARTS Optical and Infrared Monitoring of 12 Gamma -Ray Bright Blazars, The Astrophysical Journal, 2012.
  • Chatterjee, R., Bailyn, C., Bonning, EW, Buxton, M., Coppi, P., Fossati, G., Isler, JC, Maraschi, L., Urry, CM: Similarity of the Optical-IR and Gamma -Ray Time Variability of 3C 454.3, The Astrophysical Journal, 2012.
  • Bonning, EW, Bailyn, C., Urry, CM, Buxton, M., Foassati, G., Maraschi, L., Coppi, P., Scalzo, R., Isler, JC, Kaptur, A .: Corrolated Variability in the Blazar 3C 454.3, The Astrophysical Journal, 2009.

Awards (selection)

  • Senior TED Fellow, 2017
  • The Root 100 Most Influential African Americans, 2016
  • National Geographic Emerging Explorer, 2016
  • Kavli Fellow Frontiers of Science Symposium, November 2016
  • Curator & Host TED Conference, February 2016
  • Host TED @ IBM, October 2015
  • TED Fellow, 2015
  • American Astronomical Society Roger Doxsey Dissertation Prize, January 2014
  • Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, August 2012
  • Edward Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, March 2012
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, June 2007
  • NASA Harriett G. Jenkins Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, June 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Isler, Jedidah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astrophysicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century