Jennifer Hoffman

For the quantum physicist, see Jenny Hoffman.

Jennifer Hoffman
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley University of Wisconsin-Madison
Known for	Polarimetry
Scientific career
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley University of Denver

Jennifer Hoffman is an American astrophysicist and associate professor at the University of Denver. She studies the circumstellar material around stars.

Early life and education

In 1994 Hoffman graduated from University of California, Berkeley, having spent a year at University of Göttingen. Hoffman earned her PhD in 2002. She worked with Kenneth Nordsieck on Locating Mass Loss: Numerical Modeling of Circumstellar Material in Binary Systems.^[1]

Research and career

In 2003 Hoffman was appointed a National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley.^[2] Here she compiled the Women in Astronomy Resource Page.^[3] She became more involved in activities to promote diversity in physics and astronomy, working with Meg Urry on the American Astronomical Society Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy.^[4][5][6] She worked with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on modelling supernova ejecta.^[6]

At the University of Denver she leads on the HPOL spectropolarimeter.^[7] She was the Editor of the 2013 book, "Stellar Polimetry: From Birth to Death (AIP Conference Proceedings/Astronomy and Astrophysics)".^[8] In 2015 she was part of the Mintaka observing campaign.^[9][10] Hoffman's research group use three dimensional Monte Carlo radiative transfer to model the interaction of circumstellar material with the light of stars and supernovae.

References

1. Fullard, Andrew G.; Hoffman, Jennifer L.; DeKlotz, Sophia; Luchtan, Daniel Azancot; Cooper, Kevin; Nordsieck, Kenneth H. (2018-05-21). "Spectropolarimetry of the WR + O Binary WR42". arXiv:1805.08109. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
2. "Jennifer L. Hoffman | NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellows". aapf-fellows.org. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
3. "Women in Astronomy Resource Page". grammai.org. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
4. "Jennifer L. Hoffman: Women in Astronomy". www.grammai.org. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
5. Kirkpatrick, Jessica (2014-03-03). "Women In Astronomy: The 2013 CSWA Demographics Survey: Portrait of a Generation of Women in Astronomy". Women In Astronomy. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
6. "Portrait of a Decade: Results from the 2003 CSWA Survey of Women in Astronomy". cswa.aas.org. Archived from the original on 2018-07-09. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
7. "Astronomers breathe new life into venerable instrument". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
8. Stellar polarimetry : from birth to death : Madison, WI, USA, 27-30 June 2011. Hoffman, Jennifer L., Bjorkman, J. E., Whitney, Barbara, 1960-. Melville, N.Y.: American Institute of Physics. 2012. ISBN 9780735410121. OCLC 793013824.
9. Mohon, Lee (2015-11-12). "More Than Meets the Eye: Delta Orionis in Orion's Belt". NASA. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
10. "Alert Notice 474: Multiwavelength campaign on delta Ori (Mintaka) | aavso.org". www.aavso.org. Retrieved 2018-06-02.