Faculty | Liese vanZee

Associate Professor, Ph.D
Astronomy, Cornell University, 1996

Contact Information:

Astronomy Department
Indiana University
Swain West 410
727 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: (812) 855-0274
Fax: (812) 855-8725
Email: vanzee [at] astro.indiana.edu

Biographical Information:

Professor van Zee has been on the IU Astronomy faculty since 2001. She received a B.S. in Astronomy and Chemistry from Haverford College in 1991, an M.S. in Astronomy in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1996 from Cornell University. She was a Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow at NRAO-Socorro and a Research Associate at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics. She typically teaches A221-A222 (General Astronomy I-II), A452 (Extragalactic Astrophysics), and A575 (Structure and Evolution of Galaxies).

Research Interests

Professor van Zee is working on several projects related to understanding the links between star formation, elemental enrichment, and gas distribution and kinematics in star forming galaxies. Her work focuses on both the star formation history and evolution of dwarf galaxies (including stellar population models and regulatory mechanisms for star formation) as well as the elemental enrichment of spiral and irregular galaxies.

See the Indiana Extragalactic Research Group Web Page for more details.

Teaching

• General Astronomy I (A221) (Fall 2009)
• General Astronomy II (A222) (Spring 2010)
• Structure and Evolution of Galaxies (A575) (Spring 2009)
• Extragalactic Astrophysics (A452) (Spring 2007)

Recent Awards

• NSF CAREER Grant
• Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
• Active Learning Grant

Selected Publications

• A Search for Low Surface Brightness Structure around Compact Narrow Emission Line Galaxies
  Barton, E. J., van Zee, L., & Bershady, M. A. 2006, ApJ, 649, 129.
• Oxygen and Nitrogen in Leo A and GR 8
  van Zee, L., Skillman, E. D., & Haynes, M. P. 2006, ApJ, 637, 269.
• Oxygen and Nitrogen in Isolated Dwarf Irregular Galaxies
  van Zee, L. & Haynes, M. P. 2006, ApJ, 636, 214.
• The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey. II. Results of Precursor Observations
  Giovanelli, R., et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 2613.
• The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey. I. Science Goals, Survey Design, and Strategy
  Giovanelli, R., et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 2598.
• The Nature of Radio Continuum Emission at Very Low Metallicity: Very Large Array Observations of I Zw 18
  Cannon, J. M., Walter, F., Skillman, E. D., & van Zee, L. 2005, ApJ, 621 L21.
• Stellar Populations of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies: UBVRI Photometry of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster
  van Zee, L., Barton, E. J., & Skillman, E. D. 2004, AJ, 128, 2797.
• Rotationally Supported Virgo Cluster Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies: Stripped Dwarf Irregular Galaxies?
  van Zee, L., Skillman, E. D., & Haynes, M. P. 2004, AJ, 128, 121.

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