Faculty

Links to the pages for individual faculty members are available below.

Angel, J. Roger P.

Regents' Professor of Astronomy and Optical Sciences

Areas of Interest: Adaptive optics, Instrumentation, Extrasolar planets, Telescope design and optical fabrication, Geoengineering, Concentrating photovoltaic solar energy

Apai, Daniel

Associate Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences

Areas of Interest: Exoplanetary Atmospheres, Extrasolar planets, Planet Formation, Astrobiology

Arnett, W. David

Regents' Professor of Astrophysics

Areas of Interest: Theoretical Astrophysics, Supernovae, Stellar Astronomy, Nuclear Astrophysics, High-Energy-Density Laser Experiments, Galactic Evolution

Behroozi, Peter

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Theoretical Astrophysics, Galaxy Formation, Quasars, Cosmology

Bender, Chad

Associate Astronomer

Areas of Interest: Exoplanets, Star Formation, Binary Stars, Instrumentation, Astronomical Software

Besla, Gurtina

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Theoretical Astrophysics, Galaxy Formation, Dwarf Galaxies, Local Group Dynamics, Dark Matter and Structure Formation

Bieging, John

Professor

Areas of Interest: Interstellar Medium, Galactic Astronomy, Star Formation

Brown, Robert

Professor (LPL)

Areas of Interest: Solar System, Planetary Astronomy

Chriss, Michael

Associate Lecturer

Areas of Interest: History of Astronomy, Astronomy and the Arts

Close, Laird

Professor

Areas of Interest: Brown Dwarfs, Adaptive optics, Instrumentation, Infrared Astronomy, Extrasolar planets, Galactic Astronomy, Star Formation, Astrobiology

Egami, Eiichi

Astronomer

Areas of Interest: Cosmology, Infrared Astronomy, Extragalactic Astronomy

Eisner, Josh

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation, Extrasolar planets, Astrobiology, Instrumentation

Fan, Xiaohui

Regents' Professor of Astronomy

Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology

Fleming, Thomas

Astronomer and Senior Lecturer

Areas of Interest: Astronomy Education, Stellar Astronomy, High Energy Astrophysics, X-ray Astronomy

Ford, Alyson

Assistant Astronomer and Manager of Radio Telescopes

Areas of Interest: Galaxy Structure and Dynamics, stellar populations, Space Debris, Asteroids, Image Processing, Signal Processing, Radar, Instrumentation

Frye, Brenda

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Cosmology, Extragalactic Astronomy, Intergalactic Medium

Green, Elizabeth

Associate Astronomer

Areas of Interest: Stellar Astronomy

Green, Richard

Astronomer

Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology, Instrumentation

Guyon, Olivier

Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory, Associate Professor, Optical Sciences

Areas of Interest: Instrumentation, Extrasolar planets

Hege, E. Keith

Associate Astronomer

Areas of Interest: Instrumentation, Interferometry

Hill, John M.

Astronomer (LBT)

Areas of Interest: Telescope design and optical fabrication, Instrumentation

Hinz, Philip

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Instrumentation, Extrasolar planets, Astrobiology

Impey, Chris

Associate Dean, College of Science

Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology, Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation, Astrobiology, Astronomy Education

Jannuzi, Buell T.

Head of the Department of Astronomy

Areas of Interest: Observational Cosmology, Quasar Absorption Line Systems, Active Galaxies, Instrumentation for Surveys

Kim, Jinyoung Serena

Associate Astronomer

Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy, Star and Planet Formation

Kratter, Kaitlin

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Star and Planet Formation, Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics, Binary Stars, Accretion Disks, Stellar and Planetary Dynamics

Males, Jared

Assistant Astronomer

Areas of Interest: : exoplanets, high contrast imaging, Adaptive optics, wavefront control, coronagraphy, Image Processing

Marrone, Dan

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology, Instrumentation, Active Galactic Nuclei, Star Formation

McCarthy, Don

Astronomer

Areas of Interest: Astronomy Education, Instrumentation, Extragalactic Astronomy, Cosmology, Planetary Astronomy

McGreer, Ian

Assistant Astronomer

Areas of Interest: High-redshift quasars, quasar surveys, gravitational lensing, reionization, first stars

McMillan, Robert S. (Bob)

Associate Research Scientist

Areas of Interest: Stellar Astronomy, Planetary Astronomy, Instrumentation

Melia, Fulvio

Professor (Physics & Applied Math)

Areas of Interest: Physics, Astronomy, Applied Math

Milne, Peter

Associate Astronomer

Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation

Morzinski, Katie

Assistant Astronomer

Areas of Interest: Exoplanets, planetary science, Brown Dwarfs, high contrast imaging, occultations, science and engineering inquiry education

Olszewski, Edward W.

Professor

Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy, Extragalactic Astronomy, Instrumentation

Özel, Feryal

Professor

Areas of Interest: Theoretical Astrophysics

Areas of Interest: Current research interests include the application of astronomical telescope and advanced instrumentation to space surveillance—especially extremely high speed multi-color photometry, and the study of the dynamics and characteristics of high area-to-mass ratio objects in the earth orbiting environment.

Pinto, Philip A.

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Theoretical Astrophysics

Poss, Richard

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: History of Astronomy, Astronomy and the Arts

Prather, Edward

Professor

Areas of Interest: Education Research

Psaltis, Dimitrios

Professor

Areas of Interest: Theoretical High Energy Astrophysics, General Relativity, Computational Astrophysics

Rieke, Marcia J.

Regents' Professor of Astronomy

Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology, Instrumentation, Infrared Astronomy, Galactic Astronomy

Rieke, George H.

Regents' Professor of Astronomy

Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation, Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology, Instrumentation, Infrared Astronomy, Astronomy Education

Sand, David

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Galaxy Formation, Dwarf Galaxies, time domain astronomy, Supernovae, Instrumentation

Sarcevic, Ina

Professor (Physics)

Areas of Interest: Theoretical Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics

Schneider, Glenn

Astronomer

Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy, Infrared Astronomy, Extrasolar planets, Brown Dwarfs, Star Formation, Instrumentation

Shirley, Yancy

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy, Star Formation, Extragalactic Astronomy, Astrochemistry, Astrobiology

Smith, Nathan

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Evolution of Massive stars, Supernovae and eruptive transients, Star forming regions, Interstellar medium and circumstellar material

Smith, Paul S.

Astronomer

Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy, Cosmology, Polarimetry, Active Galactic Nuclei

Stark, Daniel

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Galaxy Formation and Evolution, cosmic reionization

Strittmatter, Peter A.

Regents' Professor of Astronomy and Director Emeritus

Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy, Cosmology, Theoretical Astrophysics, Active Galactic Nuclei, Instrumentation, Astronomy Education

Su, Kate

Associate Astronomer

Areas of Interest: Planetary Debris Disks, Planetary System Formation and Evolution

Sykes, Mark

Astronomer and Director of Planetary Science Institute (Tucson)

Areas of Interest: Asteroids, Planetary Astronomy

Thompson, Rodger I.

Professor

Areas of Interest: Theory and measurement of fundamental constants, Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology, Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation, Infrared Astronomy, Instrumentation

Walker, Christopher

Professor

Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy, Star Formation, Instrumentation

Weiner, Benjamin

Associate Astronomer

Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy & Cosmology, Instrumentation

West, Steve

Senior Research Scientist

Areas of Interest: Instrumentation

Williams, Grant

Astronomer and Director MMT

Areas of Interest: Massive Stars, Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Instrumentation, Polarimetry

Willman, Beth

LSST Deputy Director

Areas of Interest: near-field cosmology, dark matter, Galaxy Formation, large sky surveys

Willmer, Christopher

Associate Astronomer

Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy

Youdin, Andrew

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Theoretical Astrophysics, Planet Formation, Exoplanets (statistics, dynamics and atmospheres), Accretion Disks, Kuiper Belt objects, Hydrodynamics and Turbulence.

Zabludoff, Ann

Professor

Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology

Zaritsky, Dennis

Professor and Deputy Director, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Extralactic Astronomy and Cosmology

Ziurys, Lucy

Professor of Chemistry/Biochemistry and Astronomy

Areas of Interest: Radio and Millimeter Astronomy, Molecular Astrophysics, Astrochemistry, Interstellar Medium, Astrobiology, Laboratory Astrophysics

Retirees
Axelrod, Tim Emeritus Astronomer
Bechtold, Jill Emeritus Professor Areas of Interest: Cosmology, Intergalactic Medium, Instrumentation, Extragalactic Astronomy, Active Galactic Nuclei
Beshore, Ed Senior Staff Scientist (LPL) Areas of Interest: Instrumentation, Planetary Astronomy
Burge, James Emeritus Professor of Optical Sciences (OSC) Areas of Interest: Optical system engineering, optical testing and precision metrology, fabrication of aspheric surfaces, development of ultra-lightweight mirrors for space, design and fabrication of diffractive optics, stellar interferometry, astronomical instrumentation
Cocke, W. John Emeritus Professor Areas of Interest: Theoretical Astrophysics, Probability and Statistics
Hoffmann, William F. Emeritus Professor Areas of Interest: Infrared Astronomy, astronomical instrumentation, Dust in the Milky Way, Galactic Astronomy, Young Stars
Hubeny, Ivan Senior Research Scientist
Jokipii, J.R. (Randy) Regents’ Professor Emeritus Planetary Sciences and Astronomy Areas of Interest: cosmic energies, Galactic Astronomy
Lebofsky, Larry Emeritus Faculty
Liebert, James Emeritus Faculty
Tifft, William Emeritus Professor
Woolf, Neville J. Emeritus Professor Areas of Interest: Astrobiology, Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation, Instrumentation

Affiliated Faculty
Bailin, Jeremy
Bechtol, Keith Associate Scientist., LSST
Boyle, Richard Associate Astronomer
Corbally, Christopher Associate Professor
Düschl, Wolfgang Astronomer
Garan, Ronald
Giampapa, Mark Astronomer
Jiang, Linhua
Ly, Chun Queue Observer., MMT
Nidever, David Astronomer
Pompea, Stephen Associate Professor
Sellwood, Jerry
Vestergaard, Marianne Associate Professor

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Regents' Professor of Astronomy and Optical Sciences

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Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory, Associate Professor, Optical Sciences

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Associate Dean, College of Science

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