She, Her, Hers

Associate Professor, Chair

Physics

Hello! I am an Associate Professor in Physics at Colorado College. Prior to moving back to Colorado I was the W. J. McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. I received my Ph.D. in Astronomy with a minor in Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August of 2014, after receiving an M.S. in Astronomy in 2010. I graduated cum laude from Colorado College in 2008 with a B.A. in Physics.

My research focuses on the evolutionary histories and future evolution of canonically strange binary stars. I use space-based observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, in addition to ground-based optical and near-infrared data, to determine the formation histories of objects such as blue straggler stars and X-ray binaries. I have successfully written independent observing proposals as Principal Investigator, including a joint Chandra/HST proposal and several proposals on the 2.7m Harlan J. Smith telescope at McDonald Observatory.

 

Please see my personal website at http://nataliegosnell.com/ for more information