Luciana Bianchi (GALEX/FUSE,
Principal Research Scientist): University of Padua Ph.D. (1978)
Experimental astrophysics; study of hot stars in local group
galaxies; ultraviolet space instrumentation.
Scott
Friedman
(FUSE): University of California - Berkeley Ph.D. (1984)
Experimental astrophysics; properties of the interstellar and
intergalactic medium; astronomical instrumentation.
Mary Beth
Kaiser (Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph): University of
California - Los Angeles Ph.D. (1990)
Seyfert and starburst galaxies; astronomical instrumentation.
Jeffrey
Kruk
(FUSE): Yale University Ph.D. (1983)
Experimental astrophysics; white dwarf stars, the intergalactic
medium, chemical evolution of the interstellar medium.
Stephan
McCandliss (P. Feldman): University of Colorado Ph.D. (1988)
Experimental astrophysics; sounding rocket space astronomy in the far UV; physics
of the interstellar medium; physical properties of hot stars and their
environments; astronomical instrumentation.
Valerian
Nikitenko (MRSEC): Ph.D. Institute of Crystallography, Russian
Academy
of Sciences (1962)
Microscopic mechanisms of domain boundary nucleation, magnetization
processes and structural defects in nanocomposite magnetic materials.
Dan
Stutman (Finkenthal): Hebrew University Ph.D. (1995)
Atomic processes in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.
Alan
Uomoto (SDSS): University of Texas - Austin Ph.D. (1981)
Experimental astrophysics; physical structure and chemical composition of quasars, active galaxies and supernovae.
Harold Weaver
Jr. (FUSE, P. Feldman): Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. (1982)
Experimental astrophysics; comets and their relevance to the origin and evolution
of the solar system; planets and satellites, the interstellar medium and
extrasolar planetary systems.
Wei Zheng (CAS):
University of California - San Diego Ph.D. (1986)
Experimental astrophysics; UV and optical spectroscopy of quasars and
active galaxies; study of the intergalactic medium.
Visiting Scientists
Alex
Fullerton (FUSE): University of Toronto Ph.D. (1990)
Staff of Univ. of Victoria, B.C. Astrophysics; high resolution, high
S/N stellar spectroscopy.
Eric
Perlman (Norman): University of
Colorado Ph.D. (1994)
Observational astronomy/astrophysics; jets, evolution and physics of active galaxies, blazars, multiwavelength cosmology.
Hai Sang
(MRSEC): Nanjing University Ph.D. (1996)
Nanostructured magnetic materials.
Jennifer
Wiseman (APS Congressional Science
Fellow): Harvard University Ph.D. (1995)
Star formation processes, molecular clouds, protostars, protostellar jets.
Associate Research Scientists
Alessandra
Aloisi (Heckman): Bologna University Ph.D. (1999)
Far-UV properties of starburst
galaxies.
Bengt-Goran Andersson
(FUSE): University of Gothenburg Ph.D. (1992)
Interstellar medium with an emphasis on the transition
regions between molecular and atomic gas in interstellar
clouds.
Satyajit
Behari (CDF): Saga University Ph.D. (1996)
Studies of the properties of Bd
and Bs mesons, leading to measurement of the CKM triangle
parameters and CP violation involved therein.
Narciso Benitez (ACS):
University of Cantabria Ph.D. (1997)
Nearby supernovae,
geological isotope anomalies and ancient extinctions.
John Blakeslee
(ACS): Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. (1997)
Extragalactic-distance-scale astronomy; stellar
populations, globular clusters, structure and evolution of galaxy
clusters.
Damian Christian
(FUSE): University of Maryland - College Park Ph.D. (1993)
Multi-wavelength observations of active late-type stars, X-ray
binaries, cataclysmic variables, comets.
Edward Colbert
(Heckman): University of Maryland - College Park Ph.D. (1997)
Astrophysics; accreting black holes, X-ray supernovae, galactic winds,
starburst galaxies.
Dennis Dinge
(SDSS): University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Ph.D. (1996)
Computational astrophysics; sky-survey code development.
William van Dixon
(FUSE): Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. (1996)
Far-UV and optical spectroscopy of evolved (post-AGB) stars in globular clusters and hot gas in the interstellar medium.
Jean Dupuis (FUSE): Universite
de Montreal Ph.D. (1990)
Stellar astrophysics; surface composition of hot white dwarf stars.
David Golimowski
(ACS): Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. (1993)
Experimental astrophysics; low mass stars, brown dwarfs,
planetary formation; astronomical instrumentation.
Caryl Gronwall
(ACS): University of California - Santa Cruz Ph.D. (1996)
Emission-line galaxies, evolution of faint-field galaxies.
Matthew Herndon Ph.D. ()
Charles Holmes
(Moos): Cornell University Ph.D. (1991)
Program Manager for the Mission Operations and Data Analysis Program for
the Sun-Earth Connection Division.
Mark
Houdashelt (Wyse): Ohio State University Ph.D. (1995)
Studies of stellar populations and stellar evolution; evolutionary synthesis of early-type galaxies.
Christoper Howk
(FUSE): University of Wisconsin - Madison Ph.D. (1999)
Physics of the interstellar/intergalactic medium, particularly gaseous halos of
galaxies.
Andre
Martel (ACS): University of California - Santa Cruz Ph.D.
(1996)
Active galactic nuclei (Seyferts, 3CR galaxies, QSOs); accretion disks,
black holes, spectroscopy, starburst regions; ACS calibration
Gerhardt Meurer
(ACS): Australian National Univ. Ph.D. (1990)
Experimental astrophysics; extragalactic astronomy including the
"starburst" phenomenon, young star clusters; dwarf galaxies, especially blue
compact dwarfs; galaxy dynamics; dark matter halos; ultraviolet astronomy.
Andrew Ptak
(Heckman): University of Maryland - College Park Ph.D. (1997)
X-ray astrophysics of galaxies with emphasis on starbursts and low-
luminosity AGN, scientific software development.
Susan
Ridgway (Heckman): University of Hawaii Ph.D. (1995)
Optical, near-IR, and radio astronomy; hosts and environments of
high-redshift quasars and radio galaxies, lobe and jet properties of radio
sources.
David Sahnow
(FUSE): Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. (1992)
Experimental astrophysics; optical design of UV spectographs; the Jovian
system.
Ravi Sankrit
(FUSE): Arizona State University Ph.D. (1998)
Supernova remnants, H II regions.
Sandra
Savaglio (Glazebrook): University of Calabria Ph.D. (1995)
Astrophysics; interstellar medium in gamma-ray-burst and high-redshift
galaxies, the intergalactic medium.
Robin Shelton
(Norman): University of Wisconsin - Madison Ph.D. (1996)
Observational/theoretical astrophysics; hot phase of the interstellar
medium.
Marco Sirianni
(ACS): University of Padova Ph.D. (1999)
Initial mass function in young clusters; starburst phenomenon, young
massive star clusters; astronomical detectors.
Aniruddha Thakar
(CAS): Ohio State University Ph.D. (1997)
Computational astrophysics; counterrotating disks in spiral galaxies.
Hien Tran (ACS):
University of California - Santa Cruz Ph.D. (1993)
Active galactic nuclei, quasars, spectropolarimetry, supermassive black
holes.
Gerard
Williger (FUSE): Univ. of Cambridge (England) Ph.D. (1992)
Observational astrophysics; large-scale structure through quasar absorption
lines, high-redshift galaxies.
Fengyuan
Yang (MRSEC), Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. (1999)
Structural, magnetic, and transport properties of nanostructured materials.
Tahir
Yaqoob (CAS): University of
Leicester Ph.D. (1990)
X-ray astronomy; active galactic nuclei and quasars. Diagnostics of
physics and structure of space x-ray sources. Observational signatures of
black-hole systems.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Kaustubh
Agashe
(Sundrum): University of California - Berkeley Ph.D. (1998)
Theoretical particle physics: Ideas beyond the Standard model;
supersymmetry, extra dimensions.
Ivan Baldry (Glazebrook):
University of Sydney Ph.D. (1999)
Study of cosmic star-formation history from spectra of galaxies observed
by the redshift surveys SDSS and 2dFGRS.
Ranjini Bandyopadhyay
(Leheny): Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2001)
Experimental soft condensed matter: structure and dynamics of glassy complex
fluids and liquid crystals in random environments.
Branimir
Blagojevic (Finkenthal): Belgrade Institute of Physics Ph.D. (1999)
Construction of instrumentation for soft x-ray plasma spectroscopy in the
NSTX and CDX-U Tokamaks at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; plasma
diagnostics of tokamak impurities.
Tamas Budavari
(SDSS): Eötvös Lorànd University Ph.D. (2001)
Cosmology; photometric redshifts, angular correlation functions.
Nicholas Cross
(ACS): University of St. Andrews Ph.D. (2002)
Evolution of spatial density of the field galaxy population.
Antonio Delgado
(Sundrum): Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Ph.D. (2001)
Particle physics beyond the Standard Model, especially supersymmetric models in flat or warped extra dimensions.
Colin Denniston
(Robbins): Princeton University Ph.D. (1997)
Theoretical CMP; complex fluids, liquid crystals, granular flow, frustrated
XY model.
Roy Gal (Szalay):
Caltech Ph.D. (2001)
Sky surveys; optical studies of galaxy clusters.
James Herald
(Bianchi): University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. (2000)
Spectral analysis and stellar modeling of hot stars such as Wolf-Rayets and
the central stars of planetary nebulae.
Charles
Hoopes (FUSE): New Mexico State University Ph.D. (2000)
Studies of interstellar medium in the Milky Way, Magellanic
clouds, and starburst galaxies.
Sangil Hyun
(Robbins): Michigan State University Ph.D. (1998)
Multiscale modeling and simulation of adhesion, nanotribology, and
nanofluidics.
Michel Kenzelmann
(Broholm): Oxford University D.Phil. (2001)
Experimental CMP; Highly correlated electron systems, quantum
magnetism, neutron scattering.
Rita Kim (Szalay):
Princeton University Ph.D. (2001)
Galaxy cluster science in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
David Knauth
(FUSE): University of Toledo Ph.D. (2001)
Elemental abundance studies of the ISM; lithium isotope ratio and
light-element nucleosynthesis; physical conditions existing in
star-forming regions.
Ramzi
Kutteh (Robbins): Purdue University Ph.D. (1993)
Multiscale modeling; effect of hydrodynamic interactions in
colloidal aggregation and gelation; thin-film lubrication and
nanoscale tribology.
Nicolas Lehner
(FUSE): Queens University of Belfast Ph.D. (2000)
Physical properties of diffuse matter; gas in low density and/or metallicity environments; hot stars, their abundance and interaction with the
interstellar gas; gas from interacting galaxies and intergalactic matter.
Hongmei Luo
(MRSEC): University of Science & Technology of China Ph.D. (1997)
Magnetic and transport properties of diluted magnetic semiconductors
prepared by electrochemistry.
Barry McKernan
(Yaqoob): University of Leeds Ph.D. (1998)
X-ray spectroscopy of Seyfert 1 AGN using Chandra/XMM/ASCA
data. Understanding AGN.
Birgit Otte
(Blair): Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison Ph.D. (2001)
OVI emission in the Milky Way and NGC4631 galaxies, OVI
absorption in the Vela supernova remnant.
Qijin Chen
(Tesanovic): University of Chicago Ph.D. (2000)
Theoretical condensed matter physics; high temperature superconductors.
Thomas Soddeman
(Robbins): Max Planck Institute Ph.D. (2001)
Theoretical CMP; polymers at solid surfaces.
Paule
Sonnentrucker (S. Friedman): University Louis Pasteur Ph.D. (2000)
Study of the content and physical properties of the interstellar medium
using far-UV and optical data.
David Strickland
(Heckman): University of Birmingham Ph.D. (1998)
Physical processes associated with energy/mass transfer from massive stars
in star-forming galaxies to the interstellar medium.
Robert Swaters
(Davis Fellow): Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Ph.D. (1999)
Kinematics and dark matter properties of disk galaxies.
Junxian Wang
(Norman): University of Science and Technology of China Ph.D. (2001)
X-ray data analysis of Chandra Deep Field South.
Janos Zsargo
(Moos): University of Toledo Ph.D. (2000)
Hot and intermediate-temperature gas in the Milky Way. Production
mechanisms of lithium-like ions in the wind of hot stars.
ACS = Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys (Holland Ford, P.I.)
FUSE = Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (Warren Moos, P.I.)
CDF = Collider Detector at Fermilab
SDSS = Sloan Digital Sky Survey
MRSEC = Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
CAS = Center for Astrophysical Sciences