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Dr. Misty Bentz is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia State University. She received her PhD at Ohio State in 2007, and has been on the faculty at Georgia State since 2010. As an astrophysicist, she specializes in ground- and space-based imaging and spectroscopy, with a focus on accreting supermassive black holes and the galaxies in which they live. Her work utilizes numerous telescopes, including the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, Gemini Observatory, and the Very Large Telescopes, and her research program is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and NASA. Dr. Bentz is the recipient of several awards including a NASA Hubble Fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, and the GSU Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and her work has been cited more than 9000 times. In the media, she has been featured by outlets such as National Geographic, Popular Science, Business Insider, Mashable, Gizmodo, Georgia Magazine, and WABE Atlanta.
http://www.astro.gsu.edu/~bentz/