Sarah Trowbridge Heine

Sarah is a native of Boulder, Colorado and received her undergraduate in physics from MIT in 2008 and PhD in 2014 working on the Micro-X rocket payload. As an undergraduate she competed on the varsity gymnastics team at MIT and coached the team for several years afterwards, particularly during its transition to club.

Sarah’s other interests include baking, playing violin, and playing with her three children. She works primarily on instrumentation and is a member of the X-ray polarimetry lab working with Herman Marshall developing novel techniques utilizing Bragg reflectors (laterally graded multilayer mirrors and more recently twisted crystals) for soft X-ray polarimetry as well as supporting work developing high resolution X-ray optics.

Sarah is deputy Principal Investigator of the REDSoX Sounding Rocket, which is currently in development. She is also a NASA Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellow, and has used the funding from this fellowship to work on developing X-ray CMOS detectors for future space missions. Her main science interests are supernovae and charge exchange, but her heart really lies in building the hardware to do science.

Please note: Micro-X and Figueroa Group now at Northwestern University, Department of Physics & Astronomy