• Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin (Astronomy)
• M.A. University of Texas, Austin (Astronomy)
• B.A. University of California, Berkeley (Astrophysics)

• 2020-present San Diego State University, Professor of Astronomy
• 2014-present Mount Laguna Observatory, Director
• 2014-present Kavli IPMU, Affiliate Member
• 2014-2020 San Diego State University, Associate Professor of Astronomy
• 2010-2014 Kavli IPMU, Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
• 2007-2010 Caltech, Postdoctoral Scholar

• 2018 Quimby et al., "Spectra of Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory" ApJ 855, 2
• 2014 Quimby et al., "Detection of the Gravitational Lens Magnifying a Type Ia Supernova" Science 344, 396-399 (press release, Japanese version)
• 2013 Quimby et al., "Extraordinary Magnification of the Ordinary Type Ia Supernova PS1-10afx," ApJL 768, 20 (summary, press release, Japanese version)
• 2013 Quimby et al., "Rates of Superluminous Supernovae at z~0.2," MNRAS 431, 912
• 2011 Quimby et al., "Hydrogen-poor superluminous stellar explosions," Nature 474, 487
• 2007 Quimby et al., "SN 2005ap: A Most Brilliant Explosion," ApJL 668, 99
• 1999 Perlmutter et al., "Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae," ApJ 517, 565

For complete listing of my publications, you can:

• Search ADS (Refereed; IAUC, CBET, & ATel)
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• 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (SCP team share) (press release)
• 2010 Trumpler Award (press release from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific)
• 2008 Hyer Award (press release from the American Physical Society)

• 2018 GROWTH Astronomy School talk on spectroscopy
• 2016 Sackler Conference talk on superluminous supernovae

• Interview by Margot Wohl of KPBS's Rad Scientist program (2017)
• Article I wrote on Celebrating the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe, Stockholm, 2011

• Rates, properties, and host galaxies of the luminous supernovae found with ROTSE-IIIb (presented at the summer 2009 AAS meeting; Quimby et al. 2009)
• Image model subtraction technique for identification of time variable sources (presented at the winter 2008 AAS meeting; Quimby 2008)