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Wiki user page for Meg Pickett.

Biography: Meg Pickett (10/16/1965-) is the daughter of William and Patricia Pickett. She is an American astronomer, specializing in simulations of Solar System formation. Pickett earned degrees at Cornell University and Indiana University before working at NASA's Ames Research Center from 1995-1999. Since 2006, she has held the position of associate professor of physics at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Meg Pickett was the first and presently only woman to receive tenure in Lawrence University's Department of Physics. She has also chaired the Gender Studies Program and was director of the Freshman Studies Program.

Pickett has played roller derby as part of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association, under the name Deviled Meg (#1701). She has played for the Paper Valley Roller Girls (2012-2015), of which she was president in 2015, Fox Cities Roller Derby (2015-2016), and Jet City Roller Girls (2016-).