Shanshan RodriguezShanshan Rodriguez received her PhD in physics from the University of Iowa in 2010. She subsequently joined NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as a research engineer where she worked at the Detector System Branch till 2004, followed by a faculty posiion at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Shanshan's research interests focus on numerical techniques and the implementation/optimization of computational tools in theoretical astrophysics. Shanshan joined the physics faculty at Grinnell College in 2018 and has spent much time teaching physics and developing undergraduate courses/labs in astrophysics. Read More Read Less