Author: Shanshan Rodriguez

Leo Rodriguez received his Ph D in physics from The University of Iowa in 2011, after which he served as an HHMI postdoctoral research fellow at Grinnell College. He held subsequent faculty positions at Grinnell College and Assumption College, and rejoined the physics faculty at Grinnell College in the fall of 2018. His research interests focus on the thermodynamic properties of black holes, how they relate to quantum gravity and how they are encoded in dual conformal field theories. Shanshan Rodriguez received her Ph D in physics from The University of Iowa in 2010. She subsequently joined NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center as a research engineer, and worked at the Detector System Branch until 2004, followed by a faculty position at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In 2018 she joined the physics faculty at Grinnell College and has spent much time teaching physics and developing undergraduate courses/labs in astrophysics. Her research interests focus on numerical techniques and the implementation/optimization of computational tools in theoretical astrophysics.