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Alina Kiessling

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Address:

4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 169-237

Pasadena, CA 91109

Phone:

818.354.7391

Fax:

818.393.4619

Member of:

Origin of the Universe

Group Supervisor

Biography

Dr. Alina Kiessling’s background is focused on investigating dark matter and dark energy through weak lensing analysis of N-body simulations. She is PI of the NASA OpenUniverse effort that is coordinating and serving cosmological simulations across the Roman, Euclid, and Rubin missions. She was the Deputy Study Scientist on the Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) concept and is currently on the science team for the Habitable Worlds Observatory. In addition, she is the Project Manager for the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission.

Education

  • Ph.D. Astrophysics, University of Edinburgh, UK (2011)
  • B.Sc. (Hons) Space Science, LaTrobe University, Australia (2004)

Professional Experience

  • Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2014 – present)
  • Postdoctoral fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2012 - 2014)
  • Postdoctoral fellow, University of Edinburgh (2011)

Research Interests

  • Weak Gravitational Lensing
  • Cosmology
  • N-Body Simulations

Selected Awards

  • NASA Astrophysics Theory Program (ATP) (2014 - 2017)
  • JPL Outstanding Postdoc Research Award for Astrophysics and Space Science (2012)
  • Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher Fellowship (2007 - 2010)

Selected Publications

  1. Kitching, T. D.; Heavens, A. F.; Alsing, J.; Erben, T.; Heymans, C.; Hildebrandt, H.; Hoekstra, H.; Jaffe, A.; Kiessling, A.; Mellier, Y.; Miller, L.; van Waerbeke, L.; Benjamin, J.; Coupon, J.; Fu, L.; Hudson, M. J.; Kilbinger, M.; Kuijken, K.; Rowe, B. T. P.; Schrabback, T.; Semboloni, E.; Velander, M, "3D cosmic shear: cosmology from CFHTLenS”, 2014, MNRAS, 442, 1326.
  2. Miller, S. H. et al (including Kiessling, A.), “Airships: A New Horizon for Science,” 2014, arXiv:1402.6706, http://kiss.caltech.edu/study/airship/
  3. Spergel, D. et al (including Kiessling, A.), "WFIRST-2.4: What Every Astronomer Should Know", 2013, arXiv:1305.5425
  4. Spregel, D. et al (including Kiessling, A.), "Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope - Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets WFIRST-AFTA Final Report", 2013, arXiv:1305.5422
  5. Jullo, E., Rhodes, J., Kiessling, A., Taylor, J. E., Massey, R., Berge, J., Schimd, C., Kneib, J., Scoville, N., "COSMOS: Stochastic Bias Measurements of Weak Lensing and Galaxy Clustering", 2012, ApJ, 750, 37
  6. Joachimi, B., Taylor, A. N., Kiessling, A., "Cosmological information in Gaussianized weak lensing signals", 2011, MNRAS, 418, 145
  7. Kiessling, A., Taylor, A. N., Heavens, A. F., "Simulating the effect of non-linear mode coupling in cosmological parameter estimation", 2011, MNRAS, 416, 1045
  8. Kiessling, A., Heavens, A. F., Taylor, A. N., Joachimi, B., "SUNGLASS: A New Weak Lensing Simulations Pipeline", 2011, MNRAS, 414, 2235
  9. Laureijs, R., et al (including Kiessling, A.), "Euclid Definition Study Report", 2011, arXiv:1110.3193
  10. Kitching, T., et al (including Kiessling, A.), "Gravitational Lensing Accuracy Testing 2010 (GREAT10) Challenge Handbook", 2010, arXiv:1009.0779

Projects

Euclid
Airships
Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) – Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC)
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope