Moiya McTier
| Moiya McTier | |
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| 🎓 Alma mater | Harvard University |
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| 🌐 Website | https://www.MoiyaMcTier.com/ |
Moiya McTier is an Astrophysicist, Folklorist, and helps promote Science Communication. McTier grew up in a log cabin in a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town in Waynesburgh, Pennsylvania. She spent her childhood reading fantasy books, exploring the woods, and participating in every school club she could fit into her schedule. McTier was fortunate enough to be admitted to Harvard University. She is also the first person to study both astrophysics, folklore & mythology from Harvard University. She is an NSF fellow graduate and studies how the Milky Way’s motion influences the formation of planets around the galaxy. McTier has given over 100 talks about science and equity & inclusion, and has been interviewed on television and podcasts, science and design exhibits for the New York Hall of Science. She also taught children in rural Chile about solar eclipses and has given an invited lecture at South Africa’s National Science Festival. She has been interviewed on MSNBC, NPR, Now This News, and various other television programs and podcasts.[1] McTier is currently working on a book titled The Milky Way: An Unauthorized Autobiography, to be published in 2022 by Grand Central (World).
Education
McTier earned an BS in Astrophysics and Folklore & Mythology at Harvard University in 2016. After graduating, that same year, McTier was accepted into Columbia, and decided to pursue a PhD in Astronomy at Columbia University. Her Ph.D. research focuses on her three research papers, "Finding mountains with molehills: the detectability of exotopography" [2], "Not gone with the wind: Planet occurrence is independent of stellar galactocentric velocity" [3], and her latest research paper "8 in 10 Stars in the Milky Way Bulge experience stellar encounters within 1000 AU in a gigayear" [4] combined with the other two papers comprises chapters of her dissertation which is titled the “Galactic dynamics effects on planet populations and galactic habitability”.
Honors and recognition
McTier is a part of the Fourteen GSAS Students Awarded 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. She is an ACEAP 2018 Ambassador (JUNE). McTier is also a member of the Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy. Together with the community she provides resources to astronomers of color and tries to make the astronomy community as a whole more welcoming. McTier is a recipient of the 2016 Chambliss Student Achievement Award. This award is granted every year by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to recognize exemplary research by undergraduate and graduate students.[5] In 2017, McTier was named the Yeh Family Endowment Recipient at Columbia University.
Early Works
McTier was a teaching assistant for introductory astronomy classes for a year while an undergraduate at Harvard. She taught astronomy labs for non-astronomy majors at Barnard and Columbia for a year during her early Ph.D. program. Most of her work comes from her extensive science communication work which is her way of teaching, although it's in informal settings. Since graduating from Harvard in 2016, McTier has given hundreds of talks (including television, radio, and podcast appearances) about science.
McTier has written blogs for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, short for NRAO, titled "Remember to Look Up at the Stars, Not Down at your Data"[6]
External links
References
- ↑ "Home". Science Factory. Retrieved 2020-06-20.
- ↑ "Finding mountains with molehills: the detectability of exotopography". Arvix. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
- ↑ "Not gone with the wind: Planet occurrence is independent of stellar galactocentric velocity". Arvix. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
- ↑ "8 in 10 Stars in the Milky Way Bulge experience stellar encounters within 1000 AU in a gigayear". Arvix. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
- ↑ "Moiya McTier Awarded 2016 Chambliss Student Achievement Award: Moiya McTier". Harvard. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
- ↑ "Remember to Look Up at the Stars, Not Down at your Data". nrao. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
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