Faculty

Rebekah Dawson

Email: rxd44@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-9553
Office Address: 419 Davey Laboratory
Title: Shaffer Career Development Assistant Professor
Unit: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Webpage: https://science.psu.edu/astro/people/rxd44

Research Interests:

• Extra-solar planets
• Debris disks
• Dynamics of planetary and satellite systems
• The Kuiper Belt
• Planet formation
• Signal processing

About:

I am an assistant professor in the Penn State Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, a member of the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, affiliate of the Center for Astrostatistics, and associate of the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences. I received my PhD from the Harvard University Astronomy Department in May 2013, supervised by Ruth Murray-Clay, and was a Miller Fellow in the Berkeley Astronomy Department.