Jessica Mink
Telescope Data Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Research Focus
About Jessica
My specialty is developing software tools to analyze spectra, compute redshifts and radial velocities, process image, spectroscopic, and time series data, and manage archives of data. Most of my current work involves stars and exoplanets, but I helped discover and model the rings around Uranus and study the infrared structure of the Milky Way Galaxy with the Space Shuttle Spacelab2 Infrared Telescope. In recent years, as a transgender astronomer, I have been involved in removing barriers to participation in professional astronomy by working on the first Inclusive Astronomy conference and the resulting Nashville Recommendations and with the American Astronomical Societies Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy (CSWA) and the Committee on Sexual orientation and Gender Identity Minorities in Astronomy (SGMA).
Education
Master's
Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 06/1974
Bachelor's
Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 06/1973
