Graduate Students H-Q
Stéphane Herbert-Fort
B.S., 2004, University of California, Santa Cruz
Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology; Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation
Stéphane is interested in stellar populations & kinematics of galactic outer disks, satellite galaxies as tracers of isolated galaxy dark matter halo kinematics, intracluster supernovae search, and quasar absorption line studies of DLAs and MSLDAs.
Tim Johannsen
M.S., 2008, University of Arizona (Physics) M.A., 2005, SUNY Stony Brook (Physics)
B.S, 2003, University of Wuerzburg (Physics)
B.S., 2003, University of Wuerzburg (Math)
website: http://ice.as.arizona.edu/~timj
Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology
Tim used the lack of observed orbital evolution in X-ray binaries harboring black holes to constrain the asymptotic curvature of the extra dimension in Randall-Sundrum type braneworld gravity. He is currently studying the observed characteristics of astrophysical black holes with spacetimes that have arbitrary multipole components.
Stéphanie Juneau
M.Sc., 2005, Université de Montréal
B.Sc., 2003, Université de Montréal
Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology
Stéphanie studies galaxy evoltion between redshift z~1, when the universe was roughly half of its age, and the present day. Her main interests concern understanding the decline of galaxy star formation rate and black hole accretion rate during that epoch, specifically targeting luminous infrared galaxies.
Dennis Just
B.S., 2007, Penn State (Astronomy)
B.S., 2007, Penn State (Physics)
website: http://jobber.as.arizona.edu/~djust/
Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology
Dennis studies how properties of galaxies, such as morphology and star formation rate, depend on their environment, and how they evolve with cosmic time.
Jenna Kloosterman
B.A., 2004, University of California, Berkeley (Physics)
http://mars.as.arizona.edu/~jenna
Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation; Planetary Astronomy; Astrobiology; Instrumentation
Jenna is currently working on several instrumentation projects to probe the life cycle of the ISM including Supercam, a 64-pixel heterodyne array receiver, and STO, balloon designed to observe the galactic plane in NII and CII. Additionally, she is working to model signatures of planet formation that will be directly testable with ALMA.
Russell Knox
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Derek Kopon
B.S., 2002, Cornell University (Engineering Physics; Mechanical Engineering minor)
M. Eng., 2003, Cornell University (Engineering Physics)
Areas of Interest: Adaptive Optics, Instrumentation, Extrasolar Planets
Since coming to UA, Derek has worked on the optical design and optimization of an adaptive secondary optical system for the Magellan telescope with advisor Laird Close. He is also interested in developing enabling technologies for visible adaptive optics and using AO to directly image extrasolar planets and circumstellar disks. Prior to coming to UA, Derek worked for four years as an optical systems engineer with L3 Communications where he helped build several NASA and DoD space systems, including JWST, SIM, and WISE.
Jared Males
M.S., 2008, Johns Hopkins University
B.S., 1998, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Areas of Interest: Extrasolar planets, Instrumentation
Kushal Mehta
B.S., 2008, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Physics)
B.S., 2008, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Mathematics)
Areas of Interest: Cosmology
Kushal is working with Daniel Eisenstein on baryon acoustic oscillations.
Eric Nielsen
M.S., University of Arizona
B.S., 2003, University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Interest: Extrasolar Planets
Kyle Penner
B.S., 2008, University of Texas at Austin
Website: http://hobo.as.arizona.edu/~kpenner/
Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology
Kyle works on galaxy evolution/transformation at z>~2 in the sub-mm and mm regimes.
Robin Pulliam
B.S., 2006, Radford University
Areas of Interest: