Tea Temim
Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
Research Focus
About Tea
My research focuses on understanding how supernova explosions of massive stars affect their environments and enrich the interstellar medium. I am particularly interested in the evolution of supernova remnants and pulsar winds, the connection between stellar progenitors/explosions and their observed remnants, dust production and processing by supernovae, and dust evolution in galaxies.
I previously worked on the James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) at STScI (2016-2021) and was a research scientist and JWST postdoctoral fellow at NASA Goddard (2010-2016). I was a postdoctoral researcher and a predoctoral fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (2007-2010) and obtained my Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2009.
Honors
NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Predoctoral Fellowship
Education
Postdoc
GSFC, NASA, 2010 - 2013
2009 - 2010
Ph.D.
Astrophysics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2009
Bachelor's
Astrophysics, Physics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2003
