

Tea Temim
Research Astronomer
Department of Astrophysical Sciences
Princeton University
Peyton Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
temim AT astro.princeton.edu
My research focuses on understanding how supernova explosions of massive stars affect their environment and enrich the interstellar medium. I am particularly interested in the evolution of supernova remnants and pulsar winds, the connection between stellar progenitors/explosions and their observed remnants, dust production and processing by supernovae, and dust evolution in galaxies.
I previously worked on the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) at STScI (2016-2021) and was a research scientist and JWST postdoctoral fellow at NASA Goddard (2010-2016). I was a postdoctoral researcher and a predoctoral fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (2007-2010) and obtained my PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2009.