Janeth Valverde is a gamma-ray astrophysist interested in many areas of high- and very-high-energy astronomy. Janeth is currently an Assistant Research Scientist working on Fermi Space Telescope Mission science. Janeth is an active member of the Fermi Large Area Space Telescope Collaboration, the VERITAS Collaboration, and collaborates with scientists monitoring the sky at all wavelengths around the globe in order to unveil the physics behind the most extreme objects in the universe. Janeth works with the Compton Pair Telescope team to develop the technologies necessary to enable future gamma-ray mission concepts like AMEGO-X.
Janeth Valverde Quispe
(Assistant Research Scientist)
| Email: | janeth.valverdequispe@nasa.gov |
| Org Code: | 661 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 661 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE CO |
Brief Bio
Positions/Employment
Assistant Research Scientist
UMBC / NASA GSFC - MD, USA
2024 - Present
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
UMBC / NASA GSFC - MD, USA
2020 - 2024
Education
2020 PhD, Astroparticles and Cosmology, École Polytechnique/IPP, France.
2016 MSc, Physics, specialty in High Energy Physics (HEP), École Polytechnique, France.
2014 Postgraduate Diploma Programme, HEP, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy.
2013 BSc, Physics, National University of Engineering, Peru.
Awards
2020 Best PhD thesis prize.
2019 Best student presentation prize, gamma-ray parallel session, 30th Texas Symposium, 2019.
Special Experience
APS-IDEA Network Meeting, panelist for "Empowered teams", 2023.
Fermi-LAT DEI Organization member, 2023 - present.
NASA GSFC 660 APS Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA) team member, 2021 - present.
Fermi Mentoring Program Committee member, 2020 - present.
Talks, Presentations and Posters
Invited
Extreme explosions in supermassive black hole environments: GeV flare characteristics in blazers, Astroparticle Physics Lab 661 meeting, NASA GSFC, MD, USA.
2024
Gamma-ray Active Galactic Nuclei, Science Landscape of the next 20 years, Future Innovations in Gamma Rays (FIG-SAG) workshop, Michigan Tech, USA.
2024
The Compton Pair Telescope prototypes: A next-generation MeV gamma-ray observatory, LLR Seminar, France.
2024
Supermassive black hole environments and gamma-ray astronomy, API Colloquium, UvA, Netherlands.
2024
GeV Flare Characteristics in blazars, CDY Black Hole Flare workshop, Center for computational Astrophysics, Simons Fundation's Flatiron Institute, NYC, USA.
2023
The Fermi-LAT Light Curve Repository, the Science Director's Seminar, NASA GSFC.
2023
The Fermi-LAT Light Curve Repository, Fermi Proposer Workshop.
2022
Other
Selected Public Outreach
Gamma-ray blazers, CRESST II/NASA Undergraduate Interaction Day, GSFC.
2022 - 2022
Astro-gamma Master Class, LLR, Ecole Polytechnique, France.
2018 - 2019
Student Science Lab. lead and organizer of a permanent exhibition of large-scale Physics demonstrators, UNI, Peru.
2012 - 2013