Robert Gruendl, Ph.D.

Snail mail: University of Illinois
Astronomy Department
1002 West Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801

phone: (217)244-4209
fax: (217)244-7468

E-mail: gruendl @ astro .uiuc .edu

Welcome,

I am a research scientist working with You-Hua Chu's group and the Laboratory for Astronomical Imaging at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

My primary research interests lie in the kinematics, distribution, and structure of the ISM in external galaxies and the Milky Way. My dissertation work, which was done at the Astronomy Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, concentrates on the dynamics and structure of the prototypical grand design spiral galaxy Messier 51 (see the upper left corner).

Currently I am working on topics that span from Wolf-Rayet ring nebulae, to X-ray emission and hot gas in planetary nebulae, the structure of HII regions, global star formation processes in normal galaxies, and star formation in gas-rich interacting galaxies. Some of that work is highlighted in the links below.