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Abigail White

Graduate Student
Research interests: Astronomical instrumentation (optical, near-IR)
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Alyssa A Goodman

Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy
Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution
Research Interests: Goodman's work spans astrophysics, science education, data science, data visualization, and prediction. Her astrophysical research is aimed at understanding how interstellar gas arranges itself into new stars and on new techniques for...
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Andrew Szentgyorgyi

SAO Astrophysicist
Lecturer in Astronomy
Szentgyorgyi has worked in a number of astrophysical areas including neutrino astronomy, very high energy gamma astronomy and X-ray astronomy. For the last two decades he has focused on optical high dispersion stellar spectroscopy with a focus on...
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Andrew Vanderburg

Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Director of Undergraduate Studies
My research focuses on studying exoplanets, or planets which orbit stars other than the Sun. I am interested in developing cutting-edge techniques and methods to discover new planets outside of our solar system, and studying the planets we find to learn...
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Anna Fehr

Graduate Student
NSF GRFP Research Interests: Planet formation and Circumstellar disks
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Anya Phillips

Graduate Student
I use N-body simulations to study the detailed dynamics of tidally-disrupted globular clusters (stellar streams).
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Ashley Villar

Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Research Interests: Theoretical and observational studies of extragalactic transients, including core-collapse supernovae and kilonovae. Development of statistical and deep learning methodologies for wide-field surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin...
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Avi Loeb

Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, L'Express and more). He received a PhD in...
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Bao ("Tintin") Nguyen

Graduate Student
Tintin is broadly interested in astrophysical black holes of all sizes and scales over cosmic time, across the electromagnetic and gravitational wave spectra. He is a member of the Event Horizon Telescope and the Black Hole Explorer collaboration. He...
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Catherine Zucker

SAO Astrophysicist
Lecturer in Astronomy
Research Interests: Structure and dynamics of the Milky Way, the interstellar medium, star formation, and young stellar populations. I leverage new and upcoming photometric, astrometric, and spectroscopic surveys to construct higher-dimensional models of...
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Charles R. Alcock

Donald H. Menzel Professor of Astrophysics
Research Interests: The determination of the composition of cosmic dark matter, innovative surveys of the outer solar system, massive compact halo objects, comets and asteroids. Professor Alcock was educated at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and...
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Charlie Conroy

Professor of Astronomy
Research Interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, connection between galaxies and dark matter halos, stellar population modeling, stellar evolution.
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