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Biography
Jean P. Brodie is a British astrophysicist. She is professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and an astronomer at the Lick Observatory.
Education
Brodie has a B.Sc. from the University of London and a Ph.D. from Emmanuel College, Cambridge and the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.
In 1990 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in astronomy and astrophysics.She is a member of the International Astronomical Union.
Career
After her doctorate at Cambridge, Brodie was a post-doctoral fellow at University of California, Berkeley (1980–82), then a research fellow at Girton College, Cambridge and the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge (1982–84), and returned to UCB as an assistant research astronomer (1984–87). She took up a post of assistant professor/astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1987, and became associate professor/astronomer there in 1991 and professor/astronomer in 1997.
Her main research interests are globular star clusters and galaxy formation.
She founded the international research network Study of the Astrophysics of Globular Clusters in Extragalactic Systems (SAGES), from which developed the SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS Survey. Its short name, the SLUGGS Survey, honours the banana slug which is the mascot of UCSC.
She is a collaborator on the Hubble Heritage Project.