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Dennis Lee

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4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91109

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Origin of the Universe

Biography

Dennis is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and received his A.B. in Astrophysics and Physics from Harvard University in 2016. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University where his work focused on understanding the role of the magnetic field in the star formation process. During his Ph.D., he worked on both the development of the TolTEC imaging polarimeter for the 50m Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in Mexico as well as the analysis and study of far-infrared polarization data from the HAWC+ instrument on Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).

Education

  • 2018 – 2024 Northwestern University – Evanston, IL PhD, Astronomy
  • 2012 – 2016 Harvard University – Cambridge, MA Bachelor of Arts, Astrophysics and Physics

Professional Experience

  • Mar 2018 –Jul 2018 Senior Analyst, Business Intelligence – Wayfair, LLC – Boston, MA
  • Jul 2016 –Mar 2018 Analyst, Business Intelligence – Wayfair, LLC – Boston, MA

Community Service

  • 2018 – Present - Astronomy on Tap, Organizer, Host
  • 2021 – Present - Harvard College, Alumni Interviewer
  • 2022 – Present - CIERA Connections, Founding Organizer
  • 2022 – 2023 -Research Experiences in Astronomy at CIERA for High School Students (REACH), Organizer, Speaker

Research Interests

Dennis is interested in polarization, star formation, magnetic fields, interstellar medium, dust, astrophysical instrumentation, data reduction, and software pipelines.

Selected Awards

  • 2023 Dust Polarization of Rho Oph A: Probing the Missing Spatial Scales ALMA Cycle 10, 33 hours.
  • 2023 Characterizing the Multiplicity of Protostellar Systems in Mon R2 Keck Observatory, NIRC2, 0.5 nights.

Selected Publications

Refereed Publications

  1. The Twisted Magnetic Field of the Protobinary L483. The Astrophysical Journal, 932, 34Cox, E. G., Novak, G., Sadavoy, S. I., Looney, L. W., Lee, D., Berthoud, M., Bourke, T.L., Coudé, S., Encalada, F., Fissel, L. M., Harrison, R., Houde, M., Li, Z.-Y., Myers, P. C.,Pattle, K., Santos, F. P., Stephens, I. W., Wang, H., and Wolf, S.
  2. HAWC+/SOFIA Polarimetry in L1688: Relative Orientation of Magnetic Field and Elongated Cloud Structure. The Astrophysical Journal, 918, 39 Lee, D., Berthoud, M., Chen, C.-Y., Cox, E. G., Davidson, J. A., Encalada, F. J., Fissel,L. M., Harrison, R., Kwon, W., Li, D., Li, Z.-Y., Looney, L. W., Novak, G., Sadavoy, S.,Santos, F. P., Segura-Cox, D., and Stephens, I.

Refereed Publications In Progress

  1. Modeling the Far-Infrared Polarization Spectrum of a Heterogeneous Molecular Cloudin prep, to be submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Lee, D., Chen, C.-Y., Novak, G., Chuss, D. T., Cox, E. G., Berthoud, M., Karpovich, K., Ashton, P., Berthoud, M., Guerra, J., Harper, D., Li, Z.-Y., Michail, J.M., Zeng, L.
  2. An ambient temperature continuously rotating half-wave plate rotator for the. TolTEC millimeter wave polarimeterin prep, to be submitted to the Review of Scientific Instruments. Lee, D., Novak, G., Berthoud, M., et al.

Non-Refereed Publications/Proceedings

  1. The TolTEC camera: polarimetric commissioning and performance of the continuously rotating half-wave plate. Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, 12190, 121901O Lee, D., Novak, G., Berthoud, M., Bussan, J., Golenia, R., Van Clepper, E., Wilson, G., DeNigris, N. S., Ma, Z., McCrackan, M., Souccar, K., Fissel, L., Bij, A., Thiel, F., Aretxaga,I., Ferrusca, D., Mauskopf, P., Lunde, E., Ade, P., Tucker, C., Pisano, G., Cox, E. G., Sabin, L., Carrasco-Gonzalez, C., Pasetto, A., Gómez-Ruiz, A., Hull, C., Austermann, J., Beall, J., Gao, J., and Vissers, M.
  2. The TolTEC camera: optical alignment and characterization. Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, 12190, 1219016 Lunde, E., Berthoud, M., DeNigris, N. S., Doyle, S., Ferrusca, D., Golec, J. E., Kuczarski, S., Lee, D., Ma, Z., Mauskopf, P., McCrackan, M., McMahon, J., Novak, G., Pisano, G., Simon, S., Souccar, K., Tucker, C., Underhill, M., Van Camp, E., and Wilson, G. W.
  3. The TolTEC camera: the citlali data reduction pipeline engine. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 12189,121891H McCrackan, M., Ma, Z., DeNigris, N. S., Ryan, C., Souccar, K., Wilson, G. W., Aretxaga, I., Bij, A., Fissel, L., Golec, J. E., Gutermuth, R., Lee, D., Novak, G., Thiel, F., Walker, S., and Zaragoza-Cardiel, J.
  4. The optical design and performance of TolTEC: a millimeter-wave imaging polarimeter. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 11453,114534ALunde, E., Ade, P., Berthoud, M., Contente, R., DeNigris, N. S., Doyle, S., Ferrusca, D., Golec, J., Kuczarski, S., Lee, D., Ma, Z., Mauskopf, P., McCrackan, M., McMahon, J., Novak, G., Pisano, G., Simon, S., Souccar, K., Tucker, C., Underhill, M., Van Camp, E., and Wilson, G.
  5. The TolTEC data analysis pipeline and software stack. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 11452,114522OMa, Z., McCrackan, M., DeNigris, N. S., Souccar, K., Wilson, G. W., Horton, P., Lee, D., Mauskopf, P., Novak, G., Rodríguez-Montoya, I., and Zaragoza-Cardiel, J.
  6. The TolTEC camera: an overview of the instrument and in-lab testing results. Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X, 11453, 1145302Wilson, G. W., Abi-Saad, S., Ade, P., Aretxaga, I., Austermann, J., Ban, Y., Bardin, J., Beall, J., Berthoud, M., Bryan, S., Bussan, J., Castillo, E., Chavez, M., Contente, R., DeNigris, N. S., Dober, B., Eiben, M., Ferrusca, D., Fissel, L., Gao, J., Golec, J. E., Golina, R., Gomez, A., Gordon, S., Gutermuth, R., Hilton, G., Hosseini, M., Hubmayr, J., Hughes, D., Kuczarski, S., Lee, D., Lunde, E., Ma, Z., Mani, H., Mauskopf, P., McCrackan, M., McKenney, C., McMahon, J., Novak, G., Pisano, G., Pope, A., Ralston, A., Rodriguez, I., Sánchez-Argüelles, D., Schloerb, F. P., Simon, S., Sinclair, A., Souccar, K., Torres Campos, A., Tucker, C., Ullom, J., Van Camp, E., Van Lanen, J., Velazquez, M., Vissers, M., Weeks, E., and Yun, M. S.