Prior to joining RIT, Dr Meridith Joyce spent two years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming, appointed jointly in the School of Computing and the Department of Physics and Astronomy and as an adjunct in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. She formerly held a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship under the Widening designation at Konkoly Observatory in Budapest, Hungary, from 2022--2024. Dr Joyce works on a wide range of problems in 1D stellar modeling, stellar pulsations, Galactic chemical evolution and nucleosynthesis, uncertainty quantification, stellar age determinations, and using machine learning and AI for applications ranging from speeding up direct calculations to large data classification and multi-dimensional parameter optimization. Dr Joyce served as a member of the MESA software developers team from 2019 to 2026 and plays a leading role in the annual MESA Summer School Programs. She served as the program director for the 2023 MESA Summer School in Budapest, Hungary (see MESA@Konkoly tab) and the 2026 Summer School in Jackson, Wyoming.

Dr Joyce completed her PhD at Dartmouth in 2018 and has since held research positions and residences on five continents. She completed a pre-doc at the University of Cape Town and the South African Astronomical Observatory, South Africa; a postdoc at the Australian National University, Australia; a visiting residence at the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo, Japan; held the Lasker Data Science Prize Fellowship at the Space Telescope Science Institute; and was a visiting scientist at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, California, as part of the KITP program "Probes of Transport in Stars." She enjoys a large, international network of collaborators who work in many different sub-disciplines.

Dr Joyce's current research projects include the study of evolved, variable stars and reconstructing the evolutionary history of the Milky Way through age--metallicity relations in the Galactic Bulge. Dr Joyce is a world expert in 1D stellar modeling and uncertainty analysis and has authored an invited review on convection in 1D stellar models. She also consults on a diverse array of projects related to stellar physics, working closely with asteroseismologists, nuclear astrophysicists, and spectroscopists.

When she's not building stars or pushing computers to their limits, she enjoys hiking, skiing, playing piano, dancing, painting, and advocating for the inclusion and support of women and other historically excluded groups in physics and software development.

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