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Origins of structure in planetary systems ruth murray clay seti talks 2017
Ruth Murray-Clay is a professor at the University of California Santa Cruz who studies the formation of planetary systems.
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Career
Murray-Clay graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. from Harvard University in 2001, then moved to the University of California, Berkeley where she earned an MA in 2004 and Ph.D. in 2008. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University Institute for Theory and Computation until 2010 when she became a lecturer at Harvard University. In September 2014 she joined University of California, Santa Barbara where she held the title of Assistant Professor of Physics.
Awards
In 2008, Murray-Clay received the Mary Elizabeth Uhl Prize for her dissertation work done while at University of California, Berkeley. In 2012 she became a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. She was awarded the American Astronomical Society's Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy in 2015.
Public life
Murray-Clay came into the public spotlight in 2015 after Buzzfeed released a story detailing astronomer Geoffrey Marcy's sexual harassment of women and the university's apparent inaction, ultimately leading to Marcy's resignation. Murray-Clay, who was a student at University of California, Berkeley during the time harassment was taking place, came forward to describe her attempts to stop the harassment and the University's lack of action. Her involvement is credited with helping to bring attention to sexual harassment in the field of astronomy.