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| I am a full professor and astronomer at the University of Denver. I hold the William Herschel Womble Chair of Astronomy and act as the Director of DU's historic Chamberlin Observatory. My research, funded by NSF and NASA, focuses on the circumstellar material surrounding massive binary stars and core-collapse supernovae. I am the PI of the effort to restore the GPOL polarimetry module for the Gemini Observatories. I also led DU's participation in the consortium of institutions that refurbished and now operate the HPOL spectropolarimeter at Ritter Observatory in Toledo. I teach physics and astronomy courses at all levels from undergraduate nonmajor through Ph.D, and have advised 6 BS thesis and 4 Ph.D. dissertation projects. I am active in public outreach as well as efforts to recruit and retain women and men of color and white women in physics and astronomy. I obtained my Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002. After postdoctoral work at Rice University and UC Berkeley, including an NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship, I joined the faculty at DU in 2007. Professional CV as of October 2023: hoffman-cv.pdf |