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Curriculum Vita

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Here you can find my Curriculum Vita (CV). The CV can also be downloaded in PDF version here:

The following is the contents of my CV, copied to this page and rendered in HTML. Both this and the PDF are updated simultaneously, so the content should be the same. The only difference is that the PDF includes contact information, which I have omitted here (because there's already a Contact Info page in the website), oh and that the PDF has better formatting.

Research Interests

Massive black hole assembly, growth and mergers; gravitational waves; compact objects; cosmology and structure formation.

Education

2003 - present
Pennsylvania State University - University Park, PA
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Ph.D Candidate (expected 2010)
Thesis Title: "Black Hole Mergers as Probes of Structure Formation"

1999 - 2003
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus - Mayagüez, PR
Department of Physics
B.S. Physics, Magna Cum Laude, 2003

Research Experience

2005 - present
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
Gravitational Astrophysics Laboratory
Ph.D. Thesis Research
Thesis Advisor: M. Coleman Miller (University of Maryland)
Co-Supervisors: Joan Centrella (NASA/GSFC), Steinn Sigurdsson (PSU Astro)

Summer 2004
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
Summer Institute in Engineering and Computer Applications (SIECA) Graduate Student Intern
Advisors: Joan Centrella, John Baker, Richard Matzner

Summer 2003
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
Summer Institute in Engineering and Computer Applications (SIECA) Student Intern
Advisor: Enectalí Figueroa-Feliciano

Summer 2002
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - Cambridge, MA
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Summer Intern
Advisor: Andrea K. Dupree

Summer 2001
National Institute of Standards and Technology - Gaithersburg, MD
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
Advisor: Eric L. Shirley

Spring 2001 - Fall 2002
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus - Mayagüez, PR
Department of Physics - Undergraduate Research Assistant
Advisor: Leszek A. Nowakowski

Teaching Experience

Spring 2006
Pennsylvania State University - University Park, PA
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Teaching Assistant, Astro 011: Introductory Astronomy Lab

Professional Societies

American Astronomical Society (AAS), Student Member
American Physical Society (APS), Junior Member
Golden Key International Honour Society

Honors and Fellowships

2006
Pennsylvania State University - University Park, PA
Nominated, Sloan Fellows Program

2003 - 2005
Pennsylvania State University - University Park, PA
Bunton-Waller Fellowship

2003
Pennsylvania State University - University Park, PA
Astronomy and Astrophysics Braddocks/Roberts Fellowship

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
Rahsaan Jackson Presentation Award

University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus - Mayagüez, PR
Enrico Fermi Physics Award

2002
Collegiate USAA All-American Scholar

2000 - 2003
University or Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus - Mayagüez, PR
Department of Physics Honor Student

1999 - 2000
The National Dean's List

Presentations, Posters and Invited Talks

2009
E. Alicea-Muñoz, M.C. Miller. "Using Black Hole Mergers to Explore Structure Formation"
Poster, 213th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Long Beach, CA (4 - 8 January 2009)

2008
E. Alicea-Muñoz, M. Coleman Miller. "Using Black Hole Mergers to Explore Structure Formation"
Poster, 24th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Vancouver, BC (8 - 12 December 2008)

E. Alicea-Muñoz, M. Coleman Miller. "Black Hole Mergers as Probes of Structure Formation"
Presentation, 11th Eastern Gravity Meeting, State College, PA (13 May 2008)

2007
E. Alicea-Muñoz. "Black Hole Mergers as Probes of Structure Formation"
Presentation, Extragalactic Astronomy Conference 2,
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (14 September 2007)

E. Alicea-Muñoz. "Black Hole Mergers as Probes of Structure Formation"
Invited Talk, American Museum of Natural History,
Department of Astrophysics, New York, NY (8 February 2007)

2006
E. Alicea-Muñoz, J. Baker, J. Centrella, K. Holley-Bockelmann, M.C. Miller, P. Laguna,
M. Ricotti. "Massive Black Hole Merger Rates"
Presentation, 9th Eastern Gravity Meeting, Cambridge, MA (24 March 2006)

E. Alicea-Muñoz, J. Baker, J. Centrella, M.C. Miller, P. Laguna, M. Ricotti.
"Massive Black Hole Merger Rates". Poster.
207th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Washington, DC (8 - 12 January 2006)

2005
E. Alicea-Muñoz, J. Baker, J. Centrella, P. Laguna, R. Matzner.
"Massive Black Hole Binary Merger Rates in a Hierarchical Model of Structure Formation"
Poster. APS 2005 April Meeting, Tampa, FL (16 - 19 April 2005)

2003
E. Alicea-Muñoz, A.K. Dupree. "Pulsations in Metal-Deficient Field Giants"
Poster. 201st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WA (5 - 9 January 2003)

Outreach Activities

2006 - present
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
Volunteer, "Ask an Astrophysicist" Website
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/ask_an_astronomer.html

2003
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus - Mayagüez, PR
Physics Week, 7 - 10 April 2003
Helped develop the "Women in Physics" theme; conducted physics demonstrations for high school students; participated in a Physics Show for the university community.

2002
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus - Mayagüez, PR
Physics Week, 4 - 8 March 2002
Conducted physics demonstrations for high school students; helped organize a Physics Show for the university community.

2000 - 2002
Caribbean Astronomical Society - Mayagüez, PR
Helped with Planetarium and Observatory Open Houses at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus; gave talks about general astronomy subjects, open to the general public; guest speaker in a science radio show in Mayagüez (with Rafael Castro, then-president of the Caribbean Astronomical Society).

Skills

Languages - Fluent in Spanish and English
Operating Systems - Mac OS X, Unix/Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Programming and Software - C, FORTRAN, HTML/CSS, LaTeX, Matlab, Python (currently learning)

Last Updated: 12 February 2009