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Stella Ocker is a Brinson Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Carnegie Observatories, affiliated with the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy in the Astronomy Department. Her research focuses on using pulsars, fast radio bursts (FRBs), and multi-wavelength observations to study the interstellar and intergalactic medium. She is part of the NANOGrav Collaboration, the DSA-110 science team, and the pulsar working groups for DSA-2000 and the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). Her work addresses the distribution and dynamics of ionized gas in the Galaxy and beyond, with a particular emphasis on radio surveys like DSA-2000 and CHORD.
Key research areas include probing circumgalactic turbulence via FRBs and pulsars, analyzing scattering variability in FRB environments, and studying plasma structures around neutron stars. She has contributed to projects like the NE2001p electron density model implementation and investigations of non-radiative shocks in stellar bow shocks. Ocker has also explored the heliosphere-interstellar medium interaction, leveraging Voyager 1 data to study plasma waves in interstellar space.
Her awards include the Brinson Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship. Ocker collaborates extensively with international teams and contributes to major initiatives like NANOGrav’s gravitational wave detection efforts and the DSA-2000 survey. Her research bridges observational astronomy with theoretical modeling, addressing fundamental questions about cosmic plasma dynamics and the structure of the Galactic and extragalactic medium.
