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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