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Principal Research Scientists

Luann Becker:  University of California, San Diego Ph.D (1995) Astrobiology

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

Jeffrey Kruk (FUSE): Yale University Ph.D. (1983)
Experimental astrophysics; white dwarf stars, the intergalactic medium, chemical evolution of the interstellar medium.

Stephan McCandliss:  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.

Gerhardt Meurer (ACS/SINGG): 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.

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

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.

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.


Research Scientists

Tamas Budavari (SDSS): Eotvos Lorand University Ph.D. (2001) Cosmology; photometric redshifts, angular correlation functions

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.

George Fekete (NVO): University of Maryland Ph.D. (1988)
Data intensive science.

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

Andrew Ptak

David Sahnow (FUSE): Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. (1992)
Experimental astrophysics; astronomical instrumentation

David Strickland: University of Birmingham Ph.D. (1998) Physical processes associated with energy/mass transfer from massive stars in star-forming galaxies to the interstellar medium.

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


Associate Research Scientists

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.

Larry Bradley (ACS): Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. (2003)
Observational Astrophysics; active galactic nuclei, supermassive black holes, galaxy clusters.

Jon P. Fulbright (Keck Fellow): University of California at Santa Cruz Ph.D. (1999)
Formation and chemical evolution of the Galaxy and Local Group via the use of abundance analysis based on high-resolution stellar spectra.

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

Tommy Grav: University of Oslo, Norway Ph.D. (2004)  Astrophysics

Janice Guikema

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

Mark Huber: University of Wyoming Ph.D. (2002) Astrophysics, large sky survey programs, time-domain stellar studies.

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

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

Scott Noble
Theoretical astrophysics, accretion disks, relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, general relativity.

Takashi Okajima (CAS/GSFC): Nagoya University (Japan), Ph.D. (2002)
High Energy Astrophysics, active galaxies, development of X-ray mirror and detectors for balloon and satellite missions, scientific software development.

Cristina Oliveira (FUSE): Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. (2003)

Ilaria Pascucci: Max Plank Institute for Astronomy (Germany), Ph.D. (2004)
Star and planet formation, protoplanetary disks, molecular astrophysics, infrared astronomy, astrobiology.

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

Jeremy Schnittman: MIT Ph.D. (2005) Astrophysics

Paule Sonnentrucker: University Louis Pasteur Ph.D. (2000)
Study of the content and physical properties of the interstellar medium using far-UV and optical data.

Anatoly Suchkov

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

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

Richard Wilton

Andrew Zirm (ACS): Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. (2003)
Galaxy formation and evolution. Galaxy morphology. History of Galaxy Clusters. Feedback processes from AGN and star formation.


Assistant Research Scientist

Michael Barnard

Luis Delgado-Aparicio

Benjamin Gold: University of California at Davis Ph.D. (2005)
Cosmologicial microwave background computations.

James Herald: University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. (2000)
Far-UV and UV spectroscopic analyses of hot stars, both of high mass and of low mass.

Seyed Koopayeh

David Larson

Masanori Nakamura

Domenico Tocchini-Valentini: University of Oxford Ph.D. (2005) Astrophysics

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

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

Postdoctoral Fellows

Sreekanth AKarapo

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

Matthew Baumgart

Alessio Bonato

Kittisak Chaichroen

Tingyong Chen: Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. (2006) Experimental Condensed Matter Physics

Vladimir Cvetkovic: Universiteit Leiden Ph.D. (2006)
Quantum liquid crystals

Boryana Efremova

Gavaril A. Giurgui: Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. (2005) Experimental Particle Physics

Zinjin Guo: Chinese Academy of Sciences Ph.D. (2000) Experimental Particle Physics

Sebastien Heinis (GALEX): Universite d'Aix-Marseille I Ph.D. (2005)
Galaxies, ultraviolet astronomy, large-scale structure, star formation and evolution

Myung Han Lee: University of Delaware Ph.D. (2007) Experimental Condensed Matter Physics

Yi-Chia Lin

Antoinetta Marino

Yusuke Nambu: Kyoto University Ph.D (2009) Novel Magnetic State of the Two-Dimensional Triangular Antiferromagnet NiGa2S4

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

Takemichi Okui: University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. (2003) Theoretical Particle Physics

Atikur Rahman

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

Andrei Savici: Columbia University Ph.D. (2004) Experimental Condensed Matter Physics

Matthew Schwartz: Princeton University Ph.D. (2003) Theoretical Particle Physics

Benedikt Thielemann

Brock Tweedie: University of California Berkeley Ph.D. (2007) Theoretical Particle Physics

Weigang Wang

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

Yang Zhao: McMaster University Ph.D (2008) X-ray and neutron scattering studies of underdoped La_{2-x}Ba_{x}CuO_{4} single crystals

Visiting Scientists

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.

Pierre Chayer (FUSE): Universite de Montreal (1995)
Staff of Univ. of Victoria, B.C. Astrophysics; White Dwarf Stars

Neal Miller

Ravi Sankrit

Gerard Williger Univ. of Cambridge (England) Ph.D. (1992) Observational astrophysics; large-scale structure through quasar absorption lines, high-redshift galaxies.


Abbreviations

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

STScI = Space Telescope Science Institute

TIPAC = Theoretical interdisiplinary Physics and Astrophysics Center

GSFC = NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

MSGC = Maryland Space Grant Consortium

KIAS = Korea Institute for Advanced Study

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