Research Staff Listing

Mary Beth Kaiser (ACESS): Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (1990)-Experimental astrophysics; spectrophotometry; Seyfert and starburst galaxies; sounding rocket space astronomy.

Dan Stutman: Ph.D. Hebrew University (1995)
Atomic processes in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.

Tahir Yaqoob (CAS): Ph.D.University of Leicester (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.

Wei Zheng (CAS): Ph.D. University of California - San Diego (1986)
Experimental astrophysics; UV and optical spectroscopy of quasars and active galaxies; study of the intergalactic medium.

Research Scientists

Una Hwang: Ph.D MIT. (1998)
X-ray astronomy

Kip Kuntz: Ph.D. University of Maryland (2000)
Hot Galactic ISM using X-ray observations.

Johannes Staguhn: Ph.D. University of Cologne, Germany (1996) Astrophysics; far-infrared through millimeter wavelength astronomical instrumentation and observations, concentrating on AGN phenomena, star formation, and cosmology.

Ani Thakar (CAS): Ph.D. Ohio State University (1997)
Computational astrophysics; counterrotating disks in spiral galaxies.

David Thilker (GALEX) PhD. New Mexico State University (1999)
Star formation and the interstellar medium in nearby galaxies -- HI in circumgalactic environments -- HVCs -- Ultraviolet, infrared, and radio astronomy -- H-alpha imaging

Zlatan Tsvetanov:

Associate Research Scientists

Satyajit Behari (CDF): Ph.D Saga University (1996)
Studies of the properties of Bd and Bs mesons, leading to measurement of the CKM triangle parameters and CP violation involved therein.

Natalia Drichko: Ph.D. Ioffee Physico-Technical Institute, Russia (2002) Raman and Infrared spectroscopy. Strongly correlated electronic systems. Frustrated Magnets.Organic conductors.

Suvi Gezari: Ph.D. Columbia University (2005) Astronomy.

Edward Givelberg:Ph.D. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU (1997) Applied and computational mathematics. Large scale software development.

Janice Guikema: Ph.D. Stanford University (2004) Experimental Condensed Matter Physics.

Ilana Harrus:(CAS/GSFC): Ph.D. Columbia University (1997)
Experimental astrophysics. Supernova remnants , Pulsar Wind Nebulae. Education and Public Outreach, X-ray school organizer. HEAD press office.

Seyed Koopayeh: Ph.D. Universigy of Birmingham (2007) Experimental Condensed Matter Physics.

David Larson: Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2006) Cosmology.

Sean Moran: Ph.D. CALTECH (2007) Astrophysics, galaxy evolution and role environment.

Imants Platais (CAS):Ph.D. Latvian University (1993)
Astrometry, star clusters, galactic disk evolution.

Rafael Santos: Ph.D.Kyushu Institute of Technology (1998) Data Intensive Science.

Marta Sewilo:Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison (2006) Infrared astronomy.

Valencic, Lynne:Ph.D. Louisiana State University (2003) X-ray astronomy.

Richard Wilton: M.D. University of California, LA (1974) Data Intensive Science.

Assistant Research Scientist

Miguel Angel Aragon-Calvo: Ph.D. University of Groningen (2007) Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology

Sanchayeeta Borthakur Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, (2010) Observational Astronomy. Studying inflow and outflow of neutral gas in galaxies using UV and 21 cm spectroscopy.

Thomas Essinger-Hileman:

Nick Indriolo:

Doron Lemze: Ph.D. Tel-Aviv University (2010) Astrophysics.

Elinor Medezinski:

Dmitry Mishin: Ph.D. Earth Physis Institute, RAS (2009) Cosmology.

Mark Neyrinck (Keck Fellow): Ph.D University of Colorado (2005) Cosmology, large-scale structure, homepage is http:skysrv.pha.jhu.edu/~neyrinck

Laurent Pueyo:

Steven Rodney

Kareem Sorahtia:

Kevin Tritz: Ph.D. University of Wisconsin (2002)
Design and implementation of control XUV diagnostics, plasma physics.

Xin Wang:

Ching-Wa Yip (Keck Fellow): Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh (2005)
Galaxy formation and evolution, stellar population synthesis, data clustering and classification.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Matthew Baumgart: Ph.D. Harvard University (2009) Theoretical Particle Physics.

Sara Bolognesi:

Brandon Bozek: Ph.D. University of California, Davis ( 2009) Cosmology.

Fabrizio Caola:

Daniel Clayton: Ph.D.University of Wisconsin, Madison (2010) Plasma Physics.

Gavril A. Giurgiu: Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University (2005) Experimental Particle Physics

Megan Gralla:

Sunxiang Huang:

Ssu Yen Huang:

Donghui Jeong:

Yongbeom Kang:

Deepak Kumar: Ph.D. California Institute of Technology (2009) Plasma Physics.

Bret Lehmer: Ph.D. Penn State University (2007) Astrophysics.

Antoinetta Marino: Ph.D. Observatory of Padova (2008) Astrophysics.

Giulin Liu:

Yuval Lubashevsky:

Chris Morris:

Martin Mourigal:

Mohammad Neshat: Ph.D. University of Waterloo (2009) Condensed Matter Physics.

LiDong Pan:

Lars Pastewka:

Atikur Rahman Ph.D. University of Calcutta (2008) Experimental Condensed Matter Physics.

Salvatore Rappoccia: Ph.D. Harvard University(2005) Experimental Physics.

Andreas Stier:

Daniel Stolarski: Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (2010) Theoretical Particle Physics.

Rolando Valdes Aguilar: Ph.D. University of Maryland (2008) Condensed Matter Physics.

Weigang Wang: Ph.D. University of Delaware (2008) Condensed Matter Physics.

Ruogang Zhao: Ph.D. University of Toronto (2010) Condensed Matter Physics.

Guangtun Zhu:

Visiting Scientists

Patrick Godon:

Stuart Kirshner

Jeffrey Kruk:

Valerian Niketenko:

James Overduin:

Andrew Ptak:

Jeremy Schnittman:

Panayiotis Tzanavaris: Ph.D. University of Cambridge (2003) Astrophysics

Jennifer Wiseman:

Abbreviations

ACS = Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys (Holland Ford, P.I.)

CAS = Center for Astrophysical Sciences

CDF = Collider Detector at Fermilab

FUSE = Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (Warren Moos, P.I.)

GSFC = NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

KIAS = Korea Institute for Advanced Study

MRSEC = Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

MSGC = Maryland Space Grant Consortium

SDSS = Sloan Digital Sky Survey

STScI = Space Telescope Science Institute

TIPAC = Theoretical interdisiplinary Physics and Astrophysics Center

WMAP = Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe