KNAC Faculty

...including graduate school attended, title, and research specialties.

Colgate University

Thomas J. Balonek UMass Professor of Physics & Astronomy Variable stars; quasar variability; asteroids
Jeffrey Bary Vanderbilt Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy Pre-main sequence stars

Haverford College

Stephen P. Boughn Stanford Professor of Astronomy Large-scale structure in the X-ray background; cosmology; IR and optical searches for dark matter; gravitational radiation

Desika Narayanan Arizona Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Computational astrophysics, star formation, galaxy formation, ISM physics

R. Bruce Partridge Oxford Emeritus Professor of Astronomy Cosmology, the microwave background, and radio studies of galaxies

Beth Willman Washington Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Dwarf galaxies, observational and computational near-field cosmology

Middlebury College

Eilat Glikman Columbia Assistant Professor of Physics
Quasars and AGN

Stephen Ratcliff Princeton Professor of Physics Variable stars; stellar spectroscopy; instrumentation

P. Frank Winkler Harvard Professor of Physics Optical and X-ray observations of supernova remnants

Richard Wolfson Dartmouth Professor of Physics
The solar corona and coronal mass ejections

Swarthmore College

David Cohen Wisconsin Associate Professor of Astronomy Modeling and X-ray observations of winds from massive stars; laboratory astrophysics

Eric Jensen Wisconsin Associate Professor of Astronomy Formation of planets; young stars in binary systems

Mary Ann Klassen Wyoming Laboratory Lecturer in Physics
and Astronomy
 

Vassar College

Fred Chromey Harvard Professor of Astronomy; Observatory Director Structure and history of nearby galaxies

Debra Elmegreen Harvard Maria Mitchell Professor of Astronomy Star formation; structure of spiral and interacting galaxies

Zosia Krusberg University of Chicago Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Early universe cosmology, particle dark matter, collider phenomenology, physics and astronomy education

Wellesley College

Wendy Hagen Bauer Hawaii Professor of Astronomy Atmospheric eclipsing binary stars; variable stars

Richard French Cornell Professor of Astronomy,
& Observatory Director

Planetary astronomy (in particular Saturn)

Kim McLeod Arizona Associate Professor of Astronomy
& Department Chair
Quasar host galaxies; observational extrasolar planet searches

Steve Slivan MIT Lab Instructor
& Observatory Engineer

Koronis family asteroids

Wesley Watters MIT Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Mars surface processes, impact cratering, planetary geodynamics

Wesleyan University

Bill Herbst Toronto John Monroe Van Vleck Professor
of Astronomy, Department Chair
Sellar formation; photometry; rotation; accretion disks

Meredith Hughes Harvard Assistant Professor of Astronomy Radio astronomy and planet formation
Adam Jensen Colorado Postdoctoral Research Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor of Astronomy UV and optical spectroscopy; exoplanets; chemical composition of interstellar gas and dust

Roy Kilgard Leicester Research Assistant Professor of Astronomy X-ray source populations in galaxies; statistical challenges in X-ray astronomy

Ed Moran Columbia Associate Professor of Astronomy X-ray Astronomy; X-ray background radiation

Seth Redfield Colorado Assistant Professor of Astronomy UV and optical spectroscopy; local ISM; exoplanets

Williams College

Bryce Babcock Michigan Staff Physicist Solar corona studies at total eclipses; stellar occultations by outer solar-system objects

Karen B. Kwitter UCLA Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Astronomy;
Department Chair
Planetary nebulae, interstellar medium, spectroscopy, evolution of intermediate-mass stars

Jay M. Pasachoff Harvard Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy; Observatory Director Solar corona as studied at total eclipses; solar chromosphere; interstellar deuterium and its implications for cosmology; occultations by Pluto and other outer solar-system objects

Steven P. Souza Stony Brook Lecturer & Observatory
Supervisor
Early-type emission line stars, cold interstellar clouds, stellar occultations



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