Luisa Rebull
IPAC, California Institute of Technology
Research Focus
About Luisa
Dr. Luisa Rebull is a research astronomer at the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) at Caltech. She has always wanted to be an astronomer, ever since she was very little. She got her undergraduate degree in physics from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, and her graduate degrees in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Chicago. She has been on the science staff at IPAC since 2002. Her research focuses on the formation of young, low-mass stars all over our Galaxy (stars ~1 to 50 million years old) and in understanding how stellar rotation changes over the first billion years of a star’s life. She is also dedicated to bringing astronomy to the public, giving many public talks. She has been working closely with high school teachers for more than 25 years. NITARP, the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program, partners small groups of educators with a research astronomer for a year-long authentic astronomy research project.
Honors
2011, 2007 - NITARP awarded NASA Group Achievement Award
2000-2002 - National Research Council Resident Research Associate
1998 - Donald E. MacMinn Award for Service Beyond the Walls of the University
1997 - University of Chicago President’s Service Award
Education
Postdoc
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 09/2000 - 01/2002
Ph.D.
astronomy & astrophysics, University of Chicago, 08/2000
Master's
astronomy & astrophysics, University of Chicago, 12/1993
Bachelor's
College of William and Mary, 05/1992
