(Cornell University)
James Higdon is a Research Associate with the Spitzer
Space Telescope Infrared Spectrograph team at Cornell,
where he has worked since 2001. He has held research
positions at NRAO (Jansky Fellow), the Australia
Telescope Compact Array, and the Kapteyn Astronomical
Institute in the Netherlands.
 His
interest in astronomy began at the age of 6 when
his mother won a 3.5" reflecting telescope
in a raffle. Unfortunately, the secondary mirror
was not included so he was unable to explore the
wonders of the cosmos from his back yard. Fortunately,
his uncle loaned him a 80-mm refractor and started
him on his way. Jim went on to receive astronomy
and physics degrees from the University of Texas
at Austin, culminating in a Ph.D. in astronomy in
1993. Jim's research interests include studies of
the large-scale triggering and suppression of star
formation in disk galaxies, ultra-deep radio surveys,
and the evolution of galaxies and clusters at high
redshift using observations at optical, infrared,
and radio wavelengths. He currently lives in a big
Civil War era house in upstate New York with his
beautiful wife Sarah and three very rambunctious
cats.
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