Faculty/Scientists
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Bromm, Volker
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Associate Professor
Formation of the first stars and quasars; high-redshift supernovae and metal enrichment; supermassive black hole formation; gamma-ray bursts; reionization of the intergalactic medium; present-day star formation; computational astrophysics.
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Dodson-Robinson, Sarah
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Assistant Professor
Planet formation, planet host composition, protostellar disk chemistry, Galactic chemical evolution, debris disks and brown dwarfs.
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Duncan, Rob
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Senior Research Scientist
Magnetars (ultra-magnetized neutron stars) and their possible observable consequences for soft gamma repeaters, anomalous X-ray pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, cosmic rays, and old galactic neutron stars.
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Gaskell, Martin
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Research Fellow
Supermassive black holes; Active Galactic Nuclei.
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Komatsu, Eiichiro
(Chair)
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Associate Professor
Cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropy and polarization; inflationary scenarios of the early universe; alternative theories of gravity; radio band observational cosmology.
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Kumar, Pawan
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Professor
Gamma-ray bursts; helioseismology; binary stars; tidal interaction; accretion disks; cosmology.
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Milosavljevic, Milos
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Assistant Professor
Massive black holes; the Galactic center; galaxy formation; galaxy
clusters; plasma astrophysics.
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Montgomery, Mike
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Research Scientist
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Pooley, Dave
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Research Fellow
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Scalo, John
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Professor
Star formation; interstellar medium; turbulence; galaxy evolution; complex systems; astrobiology.
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Shapiro, Paul
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Professor
Theoretical astrophysics: cosmology, galaxy formation, the interstellar medium, the intergalactic medium, interstellar dust grains, astrophysical hydrodynamics.
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Shen, Juntai
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Research Fellow
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Shields, Gregory
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Professor
Active galactic nuclei; supermassive black holes; chemical evolution of galaxies.
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Vinko, Jozsef
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Research Fellow
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Weinberg, Steven
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Professor
Theoretical astrophysics and cosmology.
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Wheeler, J. Craig
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Professor
Stellar evolution; supernovae; accretion discs; gamma-ray bursts, astrobiology.
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Winget, Don
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Professor
Theory and observation: cosmochronology; evolution of the Milky Way; late stages of stellar evolution; stellar pulsations; white dwarf stars as dark matter detectors; the Whole Earth Telescope.
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Postdocs
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Koda, Jun
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Cosmology, the nature of dark matter, structure formation.
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Mao, Yi
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Marion, Howie
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Supernovae: Evolution and Physics from Near Infrared Spectra; Cosmology.
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Pawlik, Andreas
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Zhang, Jun
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TCC Fellow
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Graduate Students
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Agarwal, Meghann
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Graduate Student - Physics
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Akcay, Sarp
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Graduate Student - Physics
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Barniol Duran, Rodolfo
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Graduate Student - Physics
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Chatzopoulos, Emmanouil
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Graduate Student
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Chiang, Chi-Ting
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Graduate Student
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Couch, Sean
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Graduate Student
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DeGennaro, Steve
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Graduate Student
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Falcon, Ross
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Graduate Student
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Ganc, Jonathan
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Graduate Student
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Hummel, Jacob
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Graduate Student
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Jeong, Donghui
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Graduate Student
Cosmological perturbation theory, Large-scale structure of the universe
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Johnson, Vincent
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Undergraduate Student
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Kagan, Daniel
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Graduate Student
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Lindner, Chris
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Graduate Student
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Meyers, Joel
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Graduate Student - Physics
Early universe cosmology, inflation, and non-Gaussianities.
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Safranek-Shrader, Chalence
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Graduate Student
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Santana, Rodolfo
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Graduate Student
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Shen, Rongfeng
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Graduate Student
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Shoji, Masatoshi
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Graduate Student
Large-Scale Structure of the universe, Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations.
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Stacy, Athena
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Graduate Student
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Watanabe, Yuki
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Graduate Student
Early universe, cosmology,
gravitational waves.
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