Alice E. Shapley
Alice Eve Shapley is an astronomer at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was one of the discoverers of the spiral galaxy BX442.
Education
Shapley received a degree in astronomy, astrophysics, and physics at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges in 1997, and a Ph.D. in astronomy at the California Institute of Technology in 2003. Her PhD was on the properties of Lyman-break galaxies.
Research areas
Shapley's research areas are galaxy formation and evolution, the feedback processes in starburst galaxies, stellar populations at high redshift, and the evolution of the inter-galactic medium at high redshift. Through her research she has acquired over $5 million in research funding.
Employment
Since 2013, Shapley has held the position of department of physics and astronomy professor. From 2003 to 2005 while at the University of California at Berkley she was a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow. She has also held the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 2005 to 2008, as well as Assistant Professor in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences from 2008 to 2013. She has also spent time teaching at Princeton in the areas of astronomy and physics.
Publications
Shapley has been a co-author on over 400 scientific papers. She is the primary author of over 80 papers.
Awards and honors
1997, Leo Goldberg Prize, Harvard1997-1998, Virginia Gilloon Fellowship, California Institute of Technology1998-2001, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship2006–2008, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship2006–2011, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship2009–2010, Member of "Galaxies Across Cosmic Time" Science Frontier Panel for Astro2010 Decadal Survey2010, McMaster Cosmology Lecture, University of Toledo2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy Teaching Award2012, UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy Teacher of the Year2014, Marc Aaronson Memorial Lecture, University of Arizona2016, Distinguished Women Scholar Series Lecturer, University of Victoria2018, Biermann Lecturer, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics2019, Kavli Lecturer, American Astronomical Society Meeting2019-2020, Nominated Participant, UCLA Faculty Leadership Academy2021, Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society2022, 132nd Faculty Research Lecturer, UCLA2025, Fellow of the American Astronomical Society