Shanshan Rodriguez

Shanshan 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 position 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...See more

Shanshan 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 position 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. See less