NAME: Lindsey Gordon
PRONOUNS: she/her
Current Institution: University of Minnesota
Hobbies: Reading, community theater, creative writing, baking
I'm a fourth year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota. I work with Tom Jones using the WOMBAT MHD simulation suite to study AGN jet - ICM environment interactions. I'm also involved in the development of WisdomWombat, the next generation of the code, and WiserWombat, the first ML integration into the code. I hold a joint GRA position at LANL working on jet studies as part of my dissertation research. I'm heavily involved in public outreach and became an astrobites author in 2024.
I'm originally from CT and attended Wellesley College in MA for my bachelor's in astrophysics with a minor in computer science. There, I had a number of research positions ranging from stellar variability and supernova (MIT) to exoplanets (Wellesley) to quasars (Middlebury) to particle accelerators (LBNL). I was also part of the Shakespeare Society and worked as a book conservation assistant in the library.