RECENT NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEES
2023: Member, Jury for National Book Award for Science+Literature.
2020 – present: Advisor, The John Guggenheim Foundation; The Radcliffe Fellowship Program.
2019 – 2022: Member, Astronomy & Astrophysics Advisory Committee (AAAC) that advises NASA, NSF and DoE.
2017 – present: Member, International Advisory Board for the Higgs Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K.
2015 – 2018: Member, Advisory Board on Gender Equity of International Association of Research Universities (IARU).
Fall 2019: Member of the jury for the PEN E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Prize.
Fall 2018: Member of the jury for the JCB Literary Prize.
RECENT ACADEMIC COMMUNITY SERVICE
2021 – present: Scientific Advisory Board & Science Editor American Astronomical Society Journals.
2021 – 2022: Chair, Astronomy & Astrophysics Advisory Committee (AAAC) that advises NASA, NSF and DoE.
2020: Member of the MIT Alumni Advisory Group for the Task Force on 2021 and Beyond.
2019: Member, Selection Committee for the Inaugural Higgs Chair in Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh.
2018: Chaired the Time Allocation Committee for the Hubble Space Telescope to award time to proposals, oversaw the first dual-anonymous selection process in the physical sciences.
2015 – 2019 Chair line of the Division of Astrophysics (DAP) of the American Physical Society (APS), Organized DAP Sessions at the Annual APS Meeting (2017), Chair of DAP (2018).
2014 Member of the MIT Alumni Advisory Group for the Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education, report is here.
Referee for Nature, Science, The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Publications of the Astronomical Society for the Pacific, Journal of Cosmology and Astrophysics, Physical Review Letters. Expert reviewer for the award of research grant funding for NSF, NASA, STScI, Danish Research Council, ERC (Europe) and STFC (U.K.).