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Outside of his research, the biggest impact directly on Ohio State has been through his ability to teach astronomy and connect with his students. He has an extremely high Rate My Professor score of 4.7. This is what some of students said about him:

“Gaudi is very passionate about astronomy and it shows. He and his beard are very inspirational to any aspiring astronomy student.”

“He is one of my favorite professors at Ohio State”.

“I really liked professor Gaudi, he was easy going and tried to make his class interesting–want to add that he discovers planets, pretty sweet!”

• Won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012.
• This award is given to individuals who are not only significant contributors to science, but are individuals who are active in outreach as well.
• Gaudi received $775K from the NSF (who nominated him for the PECASE) that helps him continue to reach out the LGBT and HIV-impacted communities.
• He mentions that he “…was a gay kid growing up in rural Illinois…science was an outlet for [him]. The idea is to bring astronomy to communities that would otherwise have no contact with it”.

• Menzel postdoctoral fellow in the Theoretical Astrophysics Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Hubble Fellow and member of the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey
• B. Warner Prize of the American Astronomical Society and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the National Science Foundation
• Science Definition Team for NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission and served as chair of NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG)
• chair of the NASA Advisory Council Astrophysics Subcommittee, providing input to NASA’s astrophysics program
• Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2014)
• involved with the discovery of nearly two dozen extrasolar planets

Dr B. Scott Gaudi, who goes by Scott, knew his whole life what he wanted to do, study the stars. At the ripe old age of seven, in second grade, he read a book called Our Universe, which along with a description of the planets in our solar system, showed fictitious images of aliens on Mars and spaceships along Jupiter. This is what he contributes to his start in Astronomy. That seven year old boy would grow up to be a famous and highly awarded astronomist.

• Research focuses on topics related to the search for extrasolar planets and the study of the Kuiper Belt, as well as various topics in gravitational lensing.
• In 2008, he and his colleagues announced the discovery of a Jupiter/Saturn analog. This was due to the use of gravitational microlensing, which is sensitive to finding multiple-planet systems containing analogs of all the solar system planets except Mercury
  • These two planets have masses ~0.71 and ~0.27 times the mass of Jupiter with orbital separations of ~2.3 to ~4.6 astronomical units orbiting a primary star.
• For more information, visit his research website or read his paper published in Science!
  • http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~gaudi/
  • http://science.sciencemag.org/content/319/5865/927.full

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  Scott Gaudi (left) and Andrew Gould
  Astronomy
  COSI
  FEB-05-2008
  Photo by Jo McCulty
  The Ohio State University

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