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Dr. Ivy Curren studied geophysics at the University of Miami in Florida. Following her PhD in the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) where she worked on the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner Instrument team, she was awarded the Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship to perform research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. In 2021, she joined the Chair of Biological Imaging at the Technical University of Munich and the Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging at Helmholtz Munich, where she is the Deputy Director of Research and Leader of the Imaging to Sensing research group. Dr. Curren also oversees the Horizon 2020 FET Proactive Digital Twins Cluster project, OPTOMICS.
Fields of Work and Expertise
Science Management Human Ressources Institutional and third-party-research funding Geophysics Biological Imaging
Professional Background
Deputy Director - Research
Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging at Helmholtz Munich & Chair of Biological Imaging at Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Project Manager
Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging at Helmholtz Munich & Chair of Biological Imaging at Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner Instrument Researcher
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Zuckerman STEM Leadership Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Planetary Science, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Research Assistant
University of California Los Angeles
Manager and Director’s Assistant
University of California Los Angeles
Institute for Planets & Exoplanets (iPLEX)
Field Geophysicist
NAEVA Geophysics, Inc. (New York/Virginia, USA)
Assistant Manager
University of Miami Rathskeller (Florida, USA)
Honors and Awards
2018-2019: Zuckerman STEM Leadership Postdoctoral Fellowship
2017-2018: Weizmann Institute of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
2014: UCLA Dept. of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Service Award
2010: UCLA Excellence in Teaching Award
2008: NAEVA Distinguished Geophysicist