
Olivia A. Greene, PhD

Astrophysicist
CFO & Dir of SciComm for The Neuroverse Initiative
Pipeline Developer
Program + Workshop Developer
STEAM and ND Advocate
Dr. Olivia A. Greene is an astrophysicist and advocate for neurodiversity in STEM. She received her PhD in Astrophysics from Vanderbilt University, where she specialized in galaxy formation and evolution. Her dissertation created a complete, visually classified catalog of post-starburst E+A galaxies from the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey through an innovative citizen science approach. Olivia is also the Chief Financial Officer and Director of Science Communications for The Neuroverse Initiative, a 501(c)(3) organization working at the intersection of space science and neurodiversity. She holds a Master's degree from Fisk University through the Fisk-Vanderbilt Bridge Program and a Bachelor's of Science degree in Physics from The Harriett L. Wilkes Honors College at Florida Atlantic University.












Publications
First and contributing author papers.
Seeing What Is, What Was, What Could Be, What Must Not:
Refining, Cataloging, and Investigating A Complete, Spatially Resolved Spectrophotometric Sample of Nearby Post-Starburst E+A Galaxies in SDSS-IV MaNGA.
Greene, 2026
Neurodivergent in Astronomy: The Early-Career Researcher Edition
Dungee, Greene & Schonhut-Stasik, 2025
Comparing Star Formation Histories and Evolutionary Pathways of Post-starburst and E+A Galaxies in TNG50 and SDSS-IV MaNGA
Ludwig et al., 2025
Refining the E+A Galaxy: A Spatially Resolved Spectrophotometric Sample of Nearby Post-starburst Systems in SDSS-IV MaNGA (MPL-5)
Greene et al., 2021
SDSS-IV MaNGA: A Dwarf E+A Galaxy Quenched by AGN Feedback
Marinelli et al., 2020
SDSS-IV MaNGA: Evidence of the importance of AGN feedback in low-mass galaxies
Penny et al., 2018
Posters
Talks
Master's Defense Presentation, 2020

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