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Juna A. Kollmeier is an observational astronomer and survey scientist whose work spans stellar astrophysics, galactic structure, and the design of transformative large-scale spectroscopic surveys. She has made significant contributions to the study of RR Lyrae variable stars, co-authoring a landmark multi-wavelength photometric compilation of 55 Galactic field RR Lyrae variables spanning optical to mid-infrared wavelengths across a 30-year baseline — work that has garnered 75 citations and serves as a foundational resource for distance scale and stellar evolution research. Perhaps her most expansive contribution is her leadership role in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V), the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey, which she helped pioneer as its director. SDSS-V represents an extraordinary leap in survey astronomy, probing stellar evolution, the interstellar medium, and supermassive black hole growth simultaneously across both hemispheres. Kollmeier's fingerprints extend to the survey's instrumentation and cyberinfrastructure, including fiber connector systems and the innovative Local Volume Mapper. Her career reflects a rare combination of scientific vision and technical execution, positioning her as a central architect of the next era of panoramic astronomical discovery.