User:Ateplu/Gillian R. Knapp

Education
Gillian Knapp attended the University of Edinburgh and received her B.Sc. in physics in 1966. Following her interest in astronomy, she moved to the US to continue her study in the University of Maryland where she got Ph.D. in astronomy in 1971. After a short period of teaching in Maryland, Knapp moved to the West coast in 1974 and continued her scientific career as a research fellow in the California Institute of technology.

Scientific Career
In the California Institute of technology, Gillian Knapp was promoted to a senior research fellow in 1976 and became a staff member of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory the same year.

In 1980 Knapp moved to Princeton to work as a researcher in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences of Princeton University and became an Associate Professor in 1984. Her scientific career was successfully developed over the years in Princeton University, where she received an Emerita Professor status in 2014.

Gillian Knapp is a highly cited astronomer and a valuable member of American Astronomical Society, Royal Astronomical Society, International Union of Radio Science, International Astronomical Union.

Honors and Awards
In 1983 the University of Texas at Austin established the Beatrice Tinsley Centennial Visiting Professorship in Astronomy. Gillian Knapp was the first recipient of the professorship (Fall 1985).

Knapp was honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the University of Maryland in 2003.