Jason D. Hofgartner

J. D. Hofgartner was born in Windsor, ON, Canada in 1988. He received the B.S. degree in physics, cooperative program, from the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 2011 and the M.S. degree in astronomy from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, in 2014. As an undergraduate, he was a Research Assistant at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and SNOLAB and a Geophysical Data Processor at Sander Geophysics. He is currently with the Cornell Center for Astrophysical Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. He is an Associate Member of the Cassini Radar Team and the author of three articles. Mr. Hofgartner is a member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and a recipient of a NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Cornell University Cranson and Edna Shelley Graduate Research Award in 2015, the AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award in 2014, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Master's and Doctoral Post Graduate Scholarships in 2011–2012 and 2012–2015.