Dorothy S. Woolum is Professor of Physics at the California State University Fullerton and Visiting Associate in the Division of Geology and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. Her primary scientific interest is in the origin and early evolution of the solar system. Her research has included laboratory studies of primitive meteorites and lunar samples and theoretical modelling of the evolution of the early solar nebula. She uses experimental nuclear and atomic physics techniques to address cosmochemical problems. For example, she has made measurements to assess the smoothness of the solar system abundances of the elements and and interpreted the results in terms of their nucleosynthetic implications. In other work, she is testing models for the nebula origin of accretionary rims in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites and for the equilibrium condensation of solids in the primitive solar nebula. She was Co-Investigator of the Lunar Neutron Probe Experiment which was flown on the Apollo 17 lunar mission. In recent theoretical work (with NASA Ames Research Center collaboration), she calculated the radiative damping of density waves in circumstellar disks. She has served as Associate Editor of JGR Planets, as Councillor of the Meteoritical Society for two terms, as Member of the NASA Origins of Solar Systems Review Panel for three years, and in other capacities for professional organizations. She is currently a member of the NASA Origins of Solar Systems Management Operations Working Group (MOWG).

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