UC Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Irvine, CA
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor (2016-Present)

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow 2014-2017)

University of Washington, Seattle, WA
NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2011–2014)
Academic Mentor, Pre-Major in Astronomy Program (2013–2014)
NSF IGERT Trainee (2009–2011)
Research & Teaching Assistant, Department of Astronomy (2009–2014)

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Scientific Analysis Associate, Observatory Planning and Scheduling Team (2008–2009)
Scientific Analysis Assistant, Science User Support Team (2005–2008)

Selected Fellowships, Awards, and Honors:

“Better Stars, Better Planets: Exploiting the Stellar-Exoplanetary Synergy”, 2019

NSF CAREER Award (2018-2023)

NASA Habitable Worlds Program Grant (2017-2020)

Clare Boothe Luce Professorship (2016-2021)

The Origins Project Postdoctoral Award Lectureship (2016)

Kavli Fellow (2015)

TED Fellow (2015)

Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize, American Astronomical Society 225th Meeting (2015)

NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014-2017)

UC President’s Postdoctoral Program Fellowship (2014-2016)

First Place, Astrobiology Science Conference Student Poster Competition (2012)

“Audience Choice”, US FameLab Astrobiology communication competition (2012)

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2011-2014)

Member, Minorities Striving and Pursuing Higher Degrees of Success in Earth System

Science Professional Development Program (MS PHD’S PDP) (2011-2013)

NASA Group Achievement Award, Spitzer Science Operations Planning Team (2010)

NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (2009-2011)

NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award, Spitzer Observatory Planning/Scheduling Team (2009)

Recent Publications:

Rushby, A., Shields, A. L., Wolf, E. T., Lague, M, Burgasser, A. The Effect of Land Albedo on the Climate of Land-dominated Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 System, ApJ, 904, 2. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ…904..124R/abstract

Palubski, I., Shields, A. L., and Deitrick, R. (2020) Habitability and Water Loss
Limits on Eccentric Planets Orbiting Main-sequence Stars, ApJ, 890, 30.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ…890…30P/abstract

Rushby, A., Shields, A. L., and Joshi, M. (2019) The Effect of Land Fraction and
Host Star Spectral Energy Distribution on the Planetary Albedo of Terrestrial Worlds,
ApJ, 887, 29. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4da6

Shields, A. L., Bitz, C.M., and Palubski, I. (2019) Energy Budgets for Terrestrial Extrasolar Planets, ApJL, 884, 2. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab44ce

Wolf, E.T., Shields, A. L., Kopparapu, R. K., Haqq-Misra, J., Toon, O. B. (2017) Constraints on Climate and Habitability for Earth-like Exoplanets Determined from a General Circulation Model, Astrophysical Journal, 837, 2.

Shields, A. L., Ballard, S., Johnson, J. (2016) The Habitability of Planets Orbiting M-dwarf Stars, Physics Reports, 663:1-38.

Shields, A. L., Barnes, R., Agol, E., Charnay, B., Bitz, C. M., Meadows, V. S. (2016) The Effect of Orbital Configuration on the Possible Climates and Habitability of Kepler-62f, Astrobiology, 16, 6.

Shields, A. L., Bitz, C. M., Meadows, V. S., Joshi, M. M., Robinson, T. D. (2014) Spectrum- driven Planetary Deglaciation Due to Increases in Stellar Luminosity, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 785, 9.

Shields, A. L., Meadows, V. S., Bitz, C. M., Pierrehumbert, R. T., Joshi, M. M., Robinson, T. D. (2013) The Effect of Host Star Spectral Energy Distribution and Ice-Albedo Feedback on the Climate of Extrasolar Planets, Astrobiology, 13, 8.