The full PDF of my C.V. is available here.
Sierra Grant
725 Commonwealth Ave. – Boston,MA 02215 – United States
sierrag [at] bu.edu • http://www.sierragrant.com
Education
Current
09/2015-05/2017
Research Interests
My research focuses on the evolution of protoplanetary disks, the disks of gas and dust that form around young stars. As these disks evolve they may form planetary systems and I’m interested in characterizing that evolution and what that means for growing planets.
Honors and Awards
Fall 2015 Dean’s Fellowship
Fall 2011, 2013, & Spring 2014 University Honors
Presentations
1/2018 The 4th MA-CT Regional Star Formation Meeting, Boston, MA – Contributed Talk
12/2017 Boston Area Exoplanet Meeting, Cambridge, MA – Contributed Talk
01/2017 Regional Star Formation Meeting, New Haven, CT – Contributed Talk
06/2015 Frontiers in Star Formation: Celebrating Contributions to the Field by Nuria Calvet and Lee Hartmann, Ann Arbor, MI – Invited Talk
01/2015 225th American Astronomical Society Meeting, Seattle, WA – Poster
02/2014 Scientista Symposium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA – Poster
04/2013, 04/2014, & 04/2015 Undergraduate Research Presentation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI – Poster
Publications
In Preparation “Herschel Observations of Protoplanetary Disks in Lynds 1641” Sierra Grant, Catherine Espaillat, Nuria Calvet, S. Thomas Megeath, Chris Miller, William J. Fischer, Kyoung Hee Kim, Amy Stutz, Babar Ali
03/2014 “A Month of Personal Transformation at Kitt Peak” Sierra Grant, NOAO Newsletter, Issue 109, March 2014
Accepted Observing Proposals
11/2017 Discovery Channel Telescope, Lowell Observatory (3 half-nights)
“Probing Gas and Dust in the Sites of Planet Formation”
Sierra Grant, Catherine Espaillat
10/2017 Hubble Space Telescope 6 orbits & Chandra X-ray Observatory 35ks & VLA 9.6 hours
“Connecting Mass Accretion and Ejection in Pre-main Sequence Stars”
Catherine Espaillat, Jesús Hernández, Sierra Grant, Enríque Macias, Mark Reynolds, Connor Robinson
10/2015 Spitzer Space Telescope (Proposal ID #12036)
“Footprints of the Magnetosphere: the Star-Disk Connection in T Tauri Stars”
Catherine Espaillat, Sierra Grant, Jesus Hernandez, Nuria Calvet Coordinated with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Swift Telescope for simultaneous observations
Teaching
Spring 2016 AS 203: Principles of Astronomy II Teaching Assistant
Affiliations
09/2015-Current Boston University Astronomy Public Open Nights
09/2011-05/2015 Student Astronomical Society
09/2011-05/2012 Douglass Houghton Scholars Program
09/2011-05/2012 Women in Science and Engineering Residency Program
06/2010 Michigan Technological University Women in Engineering Program
