Tucker Jones

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Position Title
Professor

513 Physics Building
Bio

Research Areas

Career History

  • Ph.D., Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, August 2012
  • CGE Fellow, UCSB / Southern California Center for Galaxy Evolution, 2012 - 2015
  • Hubble Fellow, University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, 2015 - 2016
  • Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, University of California, Davis, 2016 - present

Honors and Awards

  • College of Letters & Sciences Teaching Award, 2024
  • Chancellor’s Fellow, 2024-2028
  • Dean’s Faculty Fellow, 2020-2023
  • Alan H. Barrett prize for best astrophysics thesis, MIT, 2007