Dr. Jane Rigby is a civil servant Astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Rigby serves as the Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
(SENIOR PROJECT SCIENTIST FOR THE JWST)
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Dr. Jane Rigby is a civil servant Astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Rigby serves as the Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
Galaxies undergo vigorous bursts of star formation that quickly build up stellar mass, and may, through violent outflows, prevent future star formation. Dr. Rigby investigates the evolution of star formation in galaxies through cosmic time, using multiwavelength spectroscopy and photometry.
Rare gravitational lenses act like "nature's telescopes", magnifying the background universe by factors of up to 100x, enabling Dr. Rigby and collaborators to peer inside normal galaxies at the epoch of galaxy assembly.
Much of the growth of supermassive black holes is hidden from us, due to large columns of obscuring gas and dust. Dr. Rigby studies these obscured active galactic nuclei, with a focus on their multiwavelength properties, and how to identify the subset that are highly obscured.
Rigby supports the development of future NASA mission concepts. Rigby serves on the Science & Technology Definition Team (STDT) for NASA's mission concept of a Large UV/Optical/Infrared Telescope (LUVOIR).
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
October 2010 - Present
The Carnegie Observatories - Pasadena, CA
October 2006 - September 2010
The University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ
October 2000 - July 2003