Jean P. Brodie

Professor Jean P. Brodie is a faculty member in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an astronomer at UC Observatories/Lick Observatory. Her email is brodie@ucolick.org.

• B.S., University of London
• Ph.D., Cambridge University

Jean Brodie's research focuses on galaxy formation and chemical evolution, using globular star clusters as fossil tracers. She develops new instrumentation for Lick and Keck telescopes and employs optical/near-infrared spectroscopic techniques to study chemical element abundances and dynamics. Her work addresses how globular clusters reveal the early environments of galaxy formation and uses Hubble Space Telescope and Keck Telescope observations.

Her publications (2008-2010) emphasize chemo-dynamical surveys of early-type galaxies, metallicity gradients, kinematic substructure, and cluster system comparisons across galaxy types. Key projects include the SLUGGS survey (Stellar Populations and Kinematics via Subaru/Suprime-Cam and Keck/DEIMOS) and SMEAGOL (Spectroscopic Mapping of Early-Type Galaxies), supported by NSF grants AST-0206139, AST-0808099, and AST-0909237.

• Graduate Student: Jay Strader
• Collaborators: Mike Beasley (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), Javier Cenarro (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), Duncan Forbes (Swinburne University), Søren S. Larsen (Utrecht University), John Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian)

She contributes to the SAGES project, a global collaboration using high-resolution imaging and multi-object spectroscopy to investigate globular cluster formation in interacting galaxies and sub-populations in elliptical galaxies.