She is currently employed at the Carnegie Institution for Science and is the director of the fifth phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which made its first observations in October, 2020.
[1] She served as the director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, located at the University of Toronto, from 2021 to 2024.
[2] Kollmeier was going to become a lawyer, until she attended a summer camp and learned how to classify stars.
[4] She moved to Ohio State University for her doctoral studies on the intergalactic medium, which she completed in 2006.
[6] She combines a use of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations with analytic theory to understand how galaxies and black holes formed from fluctuations in the density of the early universe.