Laura Grace Spitler. Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie Phone:

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1 Contact Information Laura Grace Spitler Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie Phone: Auf dem Hügel Bonn, Germany Personal Information Born: 25 November 1982, Des Moines, IA, USA Languages: English (native speaker), German (fluent) Education PhD (Astronomy and Space Sciences) - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (2013) M.S. (Astronomy and Space Sciences) - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (2010) B.S. (Physics and Astronomy with Honors) - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA (2005) PhD Thesis - "Saving Time: New Methods and Instrumentation for Radio Variability Studies" Advisor - Prof. Jim Cordes Research Activities Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) In-depth studies of the repeating source FRB Developing hardware and algorithms for realtime searches for new FRBs Following up known FRBs Scattering properties of Galactic Center magnetar J Phased Array Feed for Effelsberg Professional Positions Postdoctoral Researcher - Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany (Jan present) Graduate Student - Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (Aug Dec 2012) DAAD Fellow - Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (digital electronics lab), Bonn, Germany (Oct July 2006) 1

2 Professional Service Preliminary design review for the ARTEMIS Transient System - chairperson (Jul 2015) Critical design review for the ARTEMIS Transient System - panel member (Mar 2016) Manuscript referee for ApJ, MNRAS, and A&A Successful Observing Proposals Rotation Measure Monitoring of FRB ", Effelsberg (Feb 2018) Simultaneous Monitoring of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst with Effelsberg and the GTC, Effelsberg (Oct 2017) Continued Monitoring of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB ", Arecibo Observatory (Sept 2017) Simultaneous Monitoring of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst with Effelsberg and INTE- GRAL, Effelsberg (Jul 2017) Targeted Search for Repeating Fast Radio Bursts", Effelsberg (Feb 2017) Simultaneous Observations of Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB with NuSTAR", Effelsberg (Feb 2017) Targeted Search for Repeating Fast Radio Bursts", Effelsberg (Feb 2017)" Understanding the Nature of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB ", Arecibo Observatory (Sept 2016) Monitoring Known Fast Radio Bursts with Effelsberg", Effelsberg (Jun 2016) Understanding the Nature of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB ", Arecibo Observatory (Mar 2016) Simultaneous Observations of a Repeating Fast Radio Burst with the Effelsberg 100-m and the German LOFAR Stations", Effelsberg (Feb 2016) Triggering LOFAR with the New Realtime Transient Detection Pipeline of the 100-m Effelsberg Telescope", Effelsberg (Feb 2016) Follow-up of the First Fast Radio Burst Discovered with Arecibo", Arecibo Observatory (Sept 2014) A Search for Transient Emission from 13-minute Detached White Dwarf Eclipsing Binary", Arecibo Observatory (Sept 2012) Computer and hardware skills Operating Systems: Linux, OS X (user and basic administration) Programming languages: C, Python Hardware description languages: VHDL, Simulink Other: BASH scripting, MySQL, LaTeX, SVN, GIT Teaching Experience Teaching Assistantships 2

3 ASTRO 1195 (Observational Astronomy), Cornell University (Fall 2007) ASTRO 2299 (Search for Life in the Universe), Cornell University (Spring 2008) Guest Lectures ASTRO 1195 (Observational Astronomy), Cornell University ASTRO 4410 (Experimental Astronomy), Cornell University ASTRO 6523 (Signal Modeling, Statistical Inference & Data Mining), Cornell University Students Supervised Leon Houben (Nijmegen University) - masters thesis (Feb Jul 2016); PhD thesis (Sep present) Guðjón Henning Hilmarsson (University of Bonn) - PhD thesis (Jul present) Heeseok Joo (University of Virginia) - summer student (Summer 2015) Josh Burt (Cornell Univeristy) - undergraduate research (Jun Dec 2012) Julia Stone (Barnard College) - NY Space Grant summer student (Summer 2011) Outreach Curious? Ask an Astronomer website ( ) Outreach events Girls Day, MPIfR (2013, 2017) Expanding Your Horizons, Buddy, Cornell University ( ) Expanding Your Horizons, Workshop leader, Cornell University (2008) Focus For Teens, Workshop leader, Cornell University (2011) Museum in the Dark, Educational station leader, Museum of the Earth ( ) Cornell Symphony Orchestra concert, DPS meeting, Cornell University (2008) Spacefest, lead educational activities, Wings of Eagles, Elmira, NY (2007) Outreach Talks Die Radioklänge der Sterne" - Förderverein Mathematik der Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt Germany (Jul 2013, in German) Rätzelhafte Radioblitze" - Sternwarte Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany (Feb 2015, in German) Rätzelhafte Radioblitze" - Astronomisches Sommerlager, Sankt Andreasberg, Germany (Aug 2015, in English) Schnelle Radioblitze am Himmel" - Bad Münstereifel, Germany (Jul 2016, in German) Pulsare und FRBs", Astronomietag, Effelsberg Radioteleskop, Germany (Mar 2017, in German) Schnelle Radioblitze am Himmel", Stellarium Erkrath, Erkrath, Germany (Sept 2017, in German) 3

4 Invited Talks Fast Radio Bursts and a Case Study in Localization", Colloquium, Curtin University, Perth, Australia (Feb 2018) A Brief History of Fast Radio Busts", Colloquium, Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Erlangen, Germany (July 2017) An Overview to Fast Radio Bursts", Bielefeld Kosmologietage, Bielefeld, Germany (Apr 2016) Continuing to Search for FRBs", Colloquium, ASTRON, Netherlands (Feb 2015) Building Flexible Digital Backends with CASPER Hardware: Transients and SETI spectrometers", MPIfR, Bonn, Germany (Sep 2010) Using FPGAs in Radio Astronomy and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence", Electronic Devices Society, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2011) Invited Conference Talks Fast Radio Burst Science with Effelsberg", Big Science with the Big Dish, MPIfR, Bonn, Germany (Feb 2018) An Overview and Update from the Repeating FRB", FRB2018, Melbourne, Australia (Feb 2018) Radio Monitoring of FRB ", McGill FRB Wokshop, Canada (Jun 2017) Practical radio observing issues: single dishes", Fast Radio Bursts: New Probes of Fundamental Physics and Cosmology, Aspen, CO, USA (Feb 2017) An Update of the Repeating FRB", International Pulsar Timing Array Meeting, Cape Town, South Africa (Jul 2016) Search for FRBs Using Effelsberg", Marcel Grossmanm meeting 14, Rome, Italy (Jul 2015) Fast Radio Bursts", American Physical Society meeting, Baltimore, MD (Apr 2015) 4

5 Primary Publications Laura Grace Spitler [1] D. Michilli, A. Seymour, J. W. T. Hessels, et al. An extreme magneto-ionic environment associated with the fast radio burst source FRB Nature, 553: , January [2] L. K. Hardy, V. S. Dhillon, L. G. Spitler, et al. A search for optical bursts from the repeating fast radio burst FRB MNRAS, 472: , December [3] C. J. Law, M. W. Abruzzo, C. G. Bassa, et al. A Multi-telescope Campaign on FRB : Implications for the FRB Population. ApJ, 850:76,November2017. [4] P. Scholz, S. Bogdanov, J. W. T. Hessels, et al. Simultaneous X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Radio Observations of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB ApJ, 846:80, September [5] P. Scholz, L. G. Spitler, J. W. T. Hessels, et al. The Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB : Multi-wavelength Observations and Additional Bursts. ApJ, 833:177, December [6] J. M. Cordes, R. S. Wharton, L. G. Spitler, S. Chatterjee, and I. Wasserman. Radio Wave Propagation and the Provenance of Fast Radio Bursts. ArXiv e-prints, May [7] L. G. Spitler, P. Scholz, J. W. T. Hessels, et al. A repeating fast radio burst. Nature, 531: , March [8] L. G. Spitler, J. M. Cordes, J. W. T. Hessels, et al. Fast Radio Burst Discovered in the Arecibo Pulsar ALFA Survey. ApJ, 790:101, August [9] L. G. Spitler, K. J. Lee, R. P. Eatough, et al. Pulse Broadening Measurements from the Galactic Center Pulsar J ApJL, 780:L3, January [10] L. G. Spitler, J. M. Cordes, S. Chatterjee, and J. Stone. Multimoment Radio Transient Detection. ApJ, 748:73, April2012. [11] L. G. Spitler and S. R. Spangler. Limits on Enhanced Radio Wave Scattering by Supernova Remnants. ApJ, 632: ,October2005. [12] S. R. Spangler and L. G. Spitler. An empirical investigation of compressibility in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. Physics of Plasmas, 11: , May

6 Collaboration Publications Laura Grace Spitler [1] G. Desvignes, R. P. Eatough, U. L. Pen, et al. Large Magneto-ionic Variations toward the Galactic Center Magnetar, PSR J ApJL, 852:L12, January [2] J. Dexter, A. Deller, G. C. Bower, et al. Locating the intense interstellar scattering towards the inner Galaxy. MNRAS, 471: , November [3] M. Berezina, D. J. Champion, P. C. C. Freire, et al. The discovery of two mildly recycled binary pulsars in the Northern High Time Resolution Universe pulsar survey. MNRAS, 470: , October [4] X. Deng, A. P. Chippendale, G. Hobbs, et al. Observing Pulsars with a Phased Array Feed at the Parkes Telescope. PASAu, 34:e026, July [5] C. G. Bassa, S. P. Tendulkar, E. A. K. Adams, et al. FRB is coincident with a star forming region in its host galaxy. ArXiv e-prints, May [6] B. Marcote, Z. Paragi, J. W. T. Hessels, et al. The Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB as Seen on Milliarcsecond Angular Scales. ApJL, 834:L8, January [7] S. P. Tendulkar, C. G. Bassa, J. M. Cordes, et al. The Host Galaxy and Redshift of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB ApJL, 834:L7, January [8] S. Chatterjee, C. J. Law, R. S. Wharton, et al. A direct localization of a fast radio burst and its host. Nature, 541:58 61, January [9] P. Lazarus, P. C. C. Freire, B. Allen, et al. Einstein@Home Discovery of a Double Neutron Star Binary in the PALFA Survey. ApJ, 831:150, November [10] P. Lazarus, A. Brazier, J. W. T. Hessels, et al. Arecibo Pulsar Survey Using ALFA. IV. Mock Spectrometer Data Analysis, Survey Sensitivity, and the Discovery of 40 Pulsars. ApJ, 812:81, October [11] P. Torne, R. P. Eatough, R. Karuppusamy, et al. Simultaneous multifrequency radio observations of the Galactic Centre magnetar SGR J MNRAS, 451:L50 L54, July [12] B. Knispel, A. G. Lyne, B. W. Stappers, et al. Einstein@Home Discovery of a PALFA Millisecond Pulsar in an Eccentric Binary Orbit. ApJ, 806:140, June

7 [13] J. P. Macquart, E. Keane, K. Grainge, et al. Fast Transients at Cosmological Distances with the SKA. Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array (AASKA14), page 55, April [14] P. Scholz, V. M. Kaspi, A. G. Lyne, et al. Timing of Five Millisecond Pulsars Discovered in the PALFA Survey. ApJ, 800:123, February [15] G. C. Bower, A. Deller, P. Demorest, et al. The Proper Motion of the Galactic Center Pulsar Relative to Sagittarius A*. ApJ, 798:120, January [16] W. W. Zhu, A. Berndsen, E. C. Madsen, et al. Searching for Pulsars Using Image Pattern Recognition. ApJ, 781:117, February [17] G. C. Bower, A. Deller, P. Demorest, et al. The Angular Broadening of the Galactic Center Pulsar SGR J : A New Constraint on the Scattering Medium. ApJL, 780:L2, January [18] R. P. Eatough, H. Falcke, R. Karuppusamy, et al. A strong magnetic field around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Galaxy. Nature, 501: , September [19] K. J. Lee, K. Stovall, F. A. Jenet, et al. PEACE: pulsar evaluation algorithm for candidate extraction - a software package for post-analysis processing of pulsar survey candidates. MNRAS, 433: , July