CV

A short version of my C.V. is below (last updated 06/24/21)

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics

June 2020 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Thesis: Discovering the Missing Population of AGN Pairs with Chandra (Advisor: Kayhan Gültekin)

M.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics

May 2017 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

B.A., cum laude with honors in Astronomy & Physics

May 2014 | Boston University, Boston, MA

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2020 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

2021 HEAD Dissertation Prize Finalist

Porat Fellow, KIPAC, Stanford University (2020 - 2023)

Rackham Dissertation Fellowship (2020)

AAS International Travel Grant (2018, 2019)

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention (2017)

Rackham Graduate School Travel Grant - University of Michigan (2017, 2018, 2019)

Rackham Graduate School Research Grant - University of Michigan (2016, 2019)

Physics Student Award - Solar Physics Division of AAS (2014)

John Mather Nobel Scholar - John Mather & The National Space Foundation (2014)

College Prize in Astronomy - Boston University (2014)

ACCEPTED P.I. PROPOSALS

Total of $372k in the past 4 years as P.I.

11. Chandra Cycle 22; GO: $167.5k (2020)

PI: Adi Foord | Kayhan Gültekin, Edmund Hodges-Kluck

10. Chandra Cycle 22; Archival: $82k (2020)

PI: Adi Foord | Kayhan Gültekin, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Tiziana Di Matteo

9. Chandra Cycle 21; Archival: $47.5k (2019)

PI: Adi Foord | Kayhan Gültekin, Edmund Hodges-Kluck

8. Magellan, 6.5m Baade Telescope; 2 nights (2019)

PI: Adi Foord | Kayhan Gültekin, Edmund Hodges-Kluck

7. Swift, Target of Opportunity; 10 ks (2018)

PI: Adi Foord

6. Australia Telescope Compact Array; 12 hours (2018)

PI: Adi Foord | Kayhan Gültekin, Richard Plotkin, Edmund Hodges-Kluck

5. Magellan, 6.5m Baade Telescope; 2 nights (2018)

PI: Adi Foord | Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Kayhan Gültekin

4. Chandra Cycle 19; Theory: $75k (2017)

PI: Adi Foord | Kayhan Gültekin

3. Swift, Target of Opportunity; 2 ks (2017)

PI: Adi Foord

2. Swift 2017a (UoM time); 100 ks (2016)

PI: Adi Foord | Elena Gallo, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Jianfeng Wu, Kayhan Gültekin

1. Swift 2016b (UoM time); 100 ks (2016)

PI: Adi Foord | Elena Gallo, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Jianfeng Wu

PUBLICATIONS

First- and Second- authored publications

9. Investigating the Accretion Nature of Binary Supermassive Black Hole Candidate

SDSS J025214.67-002813.7,

Foord, A., Liu, X., Gültekin, K., Whitley, K., Shi, F., C. Y.C. 2021, submitted to ApJ, arXiv:2110.02982

8. AGN Triality of Triple Mergers: Multi-wavelength Classifications,

Foord, A., Gültekin, K., Runnoe, J., Koss, M. 2021, ApJ, 907, 72

7. AGN Triality of Triple Mergers: Detection of Faint X-ray Point Sources,

Foord, A., Gültekin, K., Runnoe, J., Koss, M. 2021, ApJ, 907, 71

6. Extended X-ray emission from the z=4.26 radio galaxy 4C 63.20,

Napier, K., Foord, A., Gallo, E., Ghisellini, G., Hodges-Kluck, E., Wu, J., Haart, F., Ciardi, B. 2020, MNRAS, 498, 2

5. A Second Look at 12 Candidate Dual AGNs using BAYMAX,

Foord, A., Gültekin, K., Nevin, R., Comerford, J., Hodges-Kluck, E., Barrows, R., Goulding, A., Greene, J. 2020, ApJ, 892, 29

4. A Bayesian Analysis of SDSS J0914+0853, a Low-Mass Dual AGN Candidate,

Foord, A., Gültekin, K., Reynolds, M., Hodges-Kluck, E., Cackett, E., Comerford, J., King, A., Miller, J., Runnoe, J. 2019, ApJ, 877, 1

3. A Multi-wavelength Analysis of Binary-AGN Candidate PSO J334.2028+01.4075,

Foord, A., Gültekin, K., Reynolds, M., Ayer, M., Liu, T., Gezari, S., Runnoe, J. 2017, ApJ, 851, 106

2. AGN Activity in Nucleated Galaxies as Measured by Chandra,

Foord, A., Gallo, E., Hodges-Kluck, E., Miller, B., Baldassare, V, Gültekin, K., Gnedin, O. 2017, ApJ, 841, 51

1. Direct Spatial Association of an X-Ray Flare with the Eruption of a Solar Quiescent Filament,

Holman, G. & Foord, A., 2015, ApJ, 804, 108H

Co-authored publications

3. The Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project II: BLR Size and Black Hole Mass of Two AGNs

Rakshit, S., Woo, J., Gallo, E., Hodges-Kluck, E., Shin, J., Jeon, Y., Bae, H., Baldassare, V., Cho, H., Cho, W., Foord, A., et al. 2019, ApJ, 886, 93

2. Astro2020 Science White Paper: Black Hole Growth in Mergers and Dual AGN,

Koss, M., U, V., Hodges-Kluck, E., [et. al, including Foord, A.], 2019, arXiv:1903.06720

1. Kinematics of Parsec-Scale Jets of Gamma-ray Blazars at 43 GHz Within The VLBA-BU-Blazar Program,

Jorstad, S. G., Marscher, A. P., Morozova, D. A., [et. al, including Foord, A.] 2017, ApJ, 846, 98

OBSERVING EXPERIENCE

Las Campanas Observatory, Chile (10+ nights)

Imaging with FourStar on 6.5m Walter Baade Telescope

MDM Observatory, Kitt Peak, AZ, USA (10+ nights)

Imaging with Templeton on 1.3m McGraw-Hill telescope (including remote operations)

Spectroscopy with OSMOS on 2.4m Hiltner telescope