Employment Associate Professor Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Research Scientist 2021 -- 2024 Center for Computational Astrophysics Flatiron Institute Grainger Postdoctoral Fellow 2011 -- 2013 U Wisconsin, Madison Sherman Fairchild Fellow in Theoretical Astrophysics 2008 -- 2011 California Insitute of Technology

Contact Information email: abrooks at physics.rutgers.edu office: 306 Serin office phone: (848) 445-8877 Mail: Dept of Physics & Astronomy Rutgers University 136 Frelinghuysen Rd Piscataway, NJ 08854

Education University of Washington Ph.D. in Astronomy Summer 2008 Thesis Title: "The Role of Gas in the Evolution of Disk Galaxies" Thesis Advisor: Fabio Governato University of Washington M.S. in Astronomy Sept 2004 Macalester College B.A. in Physics with Astronomy emphasis, magna cum laude Dec 2000

Honors 2019 American Physical Society Maria Goeppert Mayer Award 2019 Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence 2019 Rutgers Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence 2017 SAS Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education Award 2016 Outstanding Teaching Award, presented by the Society of Physics Students of Rutgers University 2015 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics

Equity & Outreach while at Rutgers
Participant, 4H STEM Ambassadors Program Discussions with science-interested high school student-ambassadors from underserved and under-represented communities in NJ. The STEM Ambassadors return to their home communities to contribute a minimum of 50 hours of service each year.	July 2023
Rockland Astronomy Club Speaker at public outreach event at SUNY Rockland, hosted by the Rockland Astronomy Club.	Oct 2022
Member and Chair, N-Body Shop Code of Conduct Committee Enforcing the CoC and evaluating the state of our collaboration community.	2021-2023
Founder, RU-PREP Developed and implemented RU-PREP (the Rutgers Undergraduate Pipeline to Research and Education in Physics), a seminar for first-year Rutgers undergrads designed to develop their research skills, get them involved in research, and build a mentoring network as well as a peer-mentoring cohort.	2019-
Member, CSMA The American Astronomical Society's Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy	2014-2020
Panelist, Women's Leadership Conference 18th Annual Women's Leadership Conference and Career Pathways. Physics Sciences career panelist. Sponsored by the South Brunswick Commission on Women, for high school girls (at South Brunswick High School).	March 2015
Astronomy on Tap Speaker at public outreach event in Brooklyn and Kingston, Ontario.	Aug 2014 & Jan 2021
Project SUPER Mentor Project SUPER (Science for Undergraduates: A Program for Excellence in Research) is a STEM-focused enrichment program that offers undergraduate women the opportunity to actively participate in academic research.	Spring 2014
Price Foundation Fellows Program Mentor The goal of the PFF program is to provide supportive services to youth, ages 17-25, attending Rutgers (who have current or former experience in the child welfare system in New Jersey or other States) to successfully graduate from college.	Spring/Summer 2014

Invited Talks (since arrival at Rutgers)
U Washington, Astronomy Colloquium Vienna Astrophysics Colloquium	Oct 2023
LSST DESC DM Working Group	Sep 2023
Krun, Germany, Simons Symposium on Illuminating Dark Matter Pollica, Italy, Self-Interacting Dark Matter: Models, Simulations and Signals	June 2023
Caltech, Astronomy Colloquium NYU, CCPP seminar	Mar 2023
Stony Brook U, Physics Colloquium U California, Santa Cruz, Astronomy Colloquium	Feb 2023
Irving, CA, Disk Settling Workshop	Sept 2022
GGI Symposium New Physics from the Sky Flatiron Institute, CCA Lunch talk	Nov 2021
Panelist, Philosophical Aspects of Simulations in Cosmology	Aug 2021
Wayne State University, Particle-Astro-Nuclear seminar	May 2021
Aspen, CO, A Rainbow of Dark Sectors Penn State University, Astronomy & Astrophysics Colloquium U Indiana, Astronomy Colloquium	Mar 2021
New Mexico State University, Astronomy Colloquium	Feb 2021
Queen's University, astronomy seminar	Nov 2020
Carnegie Mellon/U Pitt joint astronomy seminar	Sept 2020
Krun, Germany, Simons Symposium on Illuminating Dark Matter Reykjavik, Iceland, Extreme Galaxies and Extreme Environments as Probes of Galaxy Formation (postponed due to COVID-19)	Apr 2020
UCLA, LADM 2020 (postponed due to COVID-19)	Mar 2020
Harvard, Particle Theory Seminar Lafayette Collete, Physics & Astronomy Colloquium	Feb 2020
U Utah, Physics & Astronomy Colloquium	Nov 2019
Chicago, IL, Cosmic Controversies	Oct 2019
AMNH, astro seminar Reykjavik, Iceland, Competing Structure Formation Models	Sept 2019
KICP, Chicago, IL, LSST Dark Matter Workshop	Aug 2019
Durham, UK, Small Galaxies, Cosmic Questions	July 2019
American Physical Society April Meeting, invited Maria Goeppert Mayer Award talk	Apr 2019
UMass Amherst Astronomy Colloquium	Mar 2019
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium (ESO/MPA/MPE/USM)	Jan 2019
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Institute for Theory & Computation Colloquium	Nov 2018
Vienna, Austria, IAU Symposium on Dwarf Galaxies: From the Deep Universe to the Present Santa Cruz, CA, 2018 Santa Cruz Galaxy Formation Workshop	Aug 2018
Flatiron Institute CCA, Epoch of Reionization and Early Universe Galaxy Evolution with JWST	June 2018
Krun, Germany, Simons Symposium on Illuminating Dark Matter U Oregon, Physics & Astronomy Colloquium	May 2018
KITP, Dark Matter Detection and Detectability: Paradigm Confirmation or Shift?	Apr 2018
Banff International Research Station, DM-Stat: Statistical Challenges in the Search for Dark Matter	Feb 2018
U Texas, Austin, Astronomy Colloquium MIT, Astrophysics Colloquium	Oct 2017
U Conn, Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Simons Center for Computational Astrophysics, Colloquium	Sept 2017
Vanderbilt U, Physics & Astronomy Colloquium	Aug 2017
Case Western Reserve U, Dwarf Galaxies on the Shoulders of Giants	June 2017
KITP, Quantifying and Understanding the Galaxy-Halo Connection Caltech, TAPIR Seminar	May 2017
Fermilab, Colloquium	April 2017
Princeton U, Pheno & Vino talk Simons Center at Stony Brook U, Beyond WIMPs: From Theory to Detection	March 2017
OSU, CCAPP Seminar	Feb 2017
Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Non-WIMP Dark Matter	Nov 2016
APS Mid-Atlantic Conference Montreal, Canada, Exploring the Universe with JWST - II	Oct 2016
Rider University, Science Series Fridays	Sept 2016
Princeton University, Thunch talk	May 2016
Lorentz Center, Leiden, Dark Matter on the Smallest Scales Radcliffe Institute, Rethinking Dark Matter STScI, May Symposium, What Shapes Galaxies?	Apr 2016
AAS Special Session: Astrophysical Constraints of Dark Matter Properties	Jan 2016
U Delaware, Astronomy Seminar Series	Dec 2015
Yale University, Census, Evolution, Physics: The Public Release of the 3D-HST	Nov 2015
Macalester College, Physics Colloquium	Oct 2015
plenary talk, CASCA (Canadian Astronomical Society meeting) KICP, U Chicago, Friday Seminar Series	May 2015
Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Seminar Series Columbia University, Astro Seminar Series	Apr 2015
Case Western Reserve University, Astronomy Colloqium PHISCC (Pathfinders HI Science Coordination Committee) Workshop	Mar 2015
Origins Institute, McMaster University, Colloqium U Washington, DUSC Seminar	Jan 2015
Perimeter Institute, Particle Theory Seminar U Waterloo, Physics Colloquium UC Berkeley, Theoretical Astrophysics Center (TAC) Seminar Series	Dec 2014
NYU, Astrophysics Seminar Series invisibles webinar	Sept 2014
11th Potsdam Thinkshop, Satellite Galaxies and Dwarfs in the Local Group	Aug 2014
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Astroparticle Physics: A joint TeVPA/IDM conference Aspen Center for Physics, Summer Colloquium Series	June 2014
8th Sackler Conference in Theoretical Astrophysics, Debates on the Nature of Dark Matter	May 2014
IAS, Seminar Series KITP, Santa Barbara, Fire Down Below: The Impact of Feedback on Star and Galaxy Formation AMNH, Astronomy Seminar	April 2014
Lehigh University, Physics Colloqium Kenyon College, Physics Colloqium	March 2014
UC Riverside, Astronomy Seminar Tenerife, Spain, Invited Lecturer, DAGAL Collaboration Meeting	Feb 2014
NRC-Herzberg, Victoria, BC, Astronomy Seminar	Jan 2014
CUNY, 2013 Tri-State Astronomy Meeting	Sept 2013
Harvard University, Self-Interacting Dark Matter Workshop	Aug 2013

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