Astronomy Department Faculty

• Robert Brunner(a) : quasars, observational cosmology, sky surveys
• You-Hua Chu(a) : interstellar medium, multi-wavelength observations
• Richard M. Crutcher(a) : star formation , magnetic fields , radio synthesis imaging
• Brian Fields(a) : cosmology, primordial nucleosynthesis, nuclear and high-energy astrophysics, galactic chemical evolution
• Charles Gammie(ap) : theoretical astrophysics, including star formation, planet formation, and accretion physics
• Icko Iben, Jr.(ap) : single and binary star evolution, theoretical astrophysics
• James B. Kaler(a) : public education, planetary nebulae, nebulae spectroscopy, late stellar evolution
• Athol Kemball(a) : high-performance computing, interferometry, late-type evolved stars, gravitational lensing
• Fred Lamb(pa) : high-energy and relativistic astrophysics
• Susan A. Lamb(pa) : extragalactic astrophysics; colliding and merging galaxies; dynamical and chemical evolution; global star formation
• Leslie Looney(a) : star formation, millimeter and far-infrared instrumentation
• Benjamin J. McCall(ca) : interstellar medium, astrochemistry, laboratory astrophysics
• Joe Mohr(ap) : extragalactic astronomy, structure formation, cosmology
• Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias(ap) : theoretical astrophysics, multifluid magnetohydrodynamics, theory of star formation, numerical techniques
• Edward C. Olson(a) : mass transfer , accretion disks ,long-period eclipsing binaries
• Paul Ricker(a) : evolution of galaxies, clusters of galaxies, globular clusters, the interstellar medium, supernovae
• Stuart L. Shapiro(pa) : theoretical astrophysics, general relativity
• Lewis E. Snyder(a) : interstellar, circumstellar, and cometary molecules
• Edmund C. Sutton(a) : interstellar molecular clouds, astrochemistry
• George W. Swenson, Jr.(a) : radio astronomy instrumentation, wave phenomena
• Laird A. Thompson(a) : adaptive optics , extragalactic astronomy
• Benjamin D. Wandelt(pa): cosmology
• William D. Watson(pa) : diffuse matter astrophysics
• Ronald F. Webbink(a) : binary stellar evolution
• Tony Wong (a) : molecular clouds and star formation in nearby galaxies; radio astronomy
• Kenneth M. Yoss (a) : galactic structure