Education
Ph.D. Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014
M.S. Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010
B.A. Physics, cum laude, Colorado College, 2008
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor of Physics, Colorado College, 2017–present
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, Colorado College, 2016–2017
W. J. McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, 2014–2016
Visiting Lecturer in Physics, Colorado College, Fall 2013
Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008–2014
Artistic Residencies
Leonardo@Djerassi, Summer 2023
Guild of Future Architects Shared Future Incubator, Fall 2020
Sundance Institute Theater Lab, Summer 2020
Brooklyn College, supported by The Public Theater and the Tow Foundation, Aug 2019
The Public Theater, additionally supported by Creativity and Innovation at Colorado College, Dec 2018
Recent Honors & Awards
Dean of the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Colorado College, 2023
Cottrell Scholar Award, 2021-2024
Maria Mitchell Affiliate Astronomer, 2022
Jansky Family Fellowship for Outstanding Research, UW-Madison, 2014
Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Award, American Astronomical Society, 2013
Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research, 2012
Service & Leadership
Referee for The Astronomical Journal, Nature Letters, Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hubble Space Telescope Financial Review Committee, 2021-2022
NASA Review Panelist, 2014, 2019, 2020
National Optical Astronomical Observatory Telescope Allocation Committee, 2017-2019
Hubble Space Telescope cycle 25 panelist, 2017
Member of the US delegation for the International Women in Physics Conference, 2017
Selected Recent Publications
N. M. Gosnell, M. A. Gully-Santiago, E. M. Leiner, B. M. Tofflemire. Observationally Constraining the Starspot Properties of Magnetically Active M67 Sub-subgiant S1063. The Astrophysical Journal, 2022, 925, 5.
S. Getty, B. Whitten, N. M. Gosnell, J. Taylor. Supporting Inclusiveness in Introductory Physics – A ”Design Your Own Problem” (DYOP) Assignment. The Physics Teacher, 2020, 58, 312.
N. M. Gosnell, E. Leiner, R. D. Mathieu, A. M. Geller, C. Knigge, A. Sills, N. Leigh. Constraining Mass Transfer Histories of Blue Straggler Stars with COS Spectroscopy of White Dwarf Companions. The Astrophysical Journal, 2019, 885, 1.
E. Leiner, R. D. Mathieu, A. Vandenberg, N. M. Gosnell, J. C. Smith. Blue Lurkers: Hidden Blue Stragglers on the M67 Main Sequence Identified From Their Kepler/K2 Rotation Periods. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2019, 881, 47.
E. Leiner, R. D. Mathieu, N. M. Gosnell, A. Sills. Observations of Spin-down in Post-mass-transfer Stars and the Possibility for Blue Straggler Gyrochronology, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2018, 869, 29.
N.M. Gosnell, R.D. Mathieu, A.M. Geller, A. Sills, N. Leigh, C. Knigge. Implications for the Formation of Blue Straggler Stars from HST Ultraviolet Observations of NGC 188. The Astrophysical Journal, 2015, 814, 163
E.M. Leiner, R.D. Mathieu, N.M. Gosnell, A.M. Geller. WIYN Open Cluster Study. LXVI. Spectroscopic Binary Orbits in the Young Open Cluster M35 (NGC 2168). The Astronomical Journal, 2015, 150, 10
N.M. Gosnell, R.D. Mathieu, A.M. Geller, A. Sills, N. Leigh, C. Knigge. Detection of White Dwarf Companions to Blue Stragglers in the Open Cluster NGC 188: Direct Evidence for Recent Mass Transfer. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2014, 783, 8