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Dr. Ivy Savannah Curren

Deputy Director - Research

CV

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

2023-present

Deputy Director - Research

Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging at Helmholtz Munich & Chair of Biological Imaging at Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

2021-2023

Project Manager

Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging at Helmholtz Munich & Chair of Biological Imaging at Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

2015-2020

NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner Instrument Researcher

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

2017-2019

Zuckerman STEM Leadership Postdoctoral Fellow

Center for Planetary Science, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)

2013-2017

Research Assistant

University of California Los Angeles

2011-2017

Manager and Director’s Assistant

University of California Los Angeles

Institute for Planets & Exoplanets (iPLEX)

2006-2009

Field Geophysicist

NAEVA Geophysics, Inc. (New York/Virginia, USA)

2003-2006

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

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Affiliation & Network