Faculty

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Alberts, Stacey

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Galaxy Clusters, Star Formation, Active Galactic Nuclei, High Redshift Galaxies

Angel, J. Roger P.

Regents' Professor, Professor of Astronomy and Optical Sciences, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

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

Apai, Daniel

Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Science; Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Extrasolar planets, Planetary Atmospheres, Planet Formation, Astrobiology, Novel Space Telescope Architectures

Behroozi, Peter

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

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

Bender, Chad

Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

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

Besla, Gurtina

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

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

Chan, Chi-Kwan

Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Computational Astrophysics and High Energy Astrophysics

Chung, Haeun

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Instrumentation, Optical Design, UV/VIS spectrograph, IFUs, Software Development, Circumgalactic Medium, Galaxy Kinematics, and Dynamics.

Close, Laird

Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

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

Cunha, Katia

Associate Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: High-resolution Spectroscopy; Chracterization of exoplanet host stars; Stellar Abundances; Galactic Archeology

Egami, Eiichi

Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Cosmology, Infrared Astronomy, Extragalactic Astronomy

Eisner, Josh

Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

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

Ertel, Steve

Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Detecting habitable exoplanets, Debris Disks, exozodiacal dust, precision optical interferometry, Infrared Instrumentation

Fan, Xiaohui

Regents' Professor, Associate Head of the Department of Astronomy, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology

Faramaz , Virginie

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Planetary systems dynamics, planet-debris disk interactions, production of exocomets and exozodiacal dust, Astrobiology, IR and mm observations, N-body simulations.

Fleming, Thomas

Professor of Practice, Department of Astronomy, & Research Professor, Steward Observatory

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

Ford, Alyson

Assistant Director, Steward Observatory & Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

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

Frye, Brenda

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Cosmology, Extragalactic Astronomy, Intergalactic Medium

Gaspar, Andras

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation, Stellar Astronomy, Planetary Astronomy

Green, Richard

Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology, Instrumentation

Green, Elizabeth

Associate Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Stellar Astronomy

Guyon, Olivier

Astronomer, Steward Observatory, and Professor, College of Optical Sciences

Areas of Interest: Instrumentation, Extrasolar planets

Hainline, Kevin

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Active Galactic Nuclei, Obscured Quasars in the Context of Galaxy Evolution, high-redshift galaxies

Hamden, Erika

Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Assistant Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Instrumentation, UV detectors, Galaxy Evolution, IFUs and Spectroscopy, CGM and IGM.

Hill, John M.

Research Professor, Steward Observatory & Technical Director, Large Binocular Telescope Observatory

Areas of Interest: Telescope design and optical fabrication, Instrumentation

Hyatt, Justin

Senior Research Associate

Areas of Interest: Large scale structure of high-z galaxy clusters, pulsar signatures, cold gas mapping

Jannuzi, Buell T.

Head, Department of Astronomy, Director, Steward Observatory, Professor of Astronomy, Astronomer in Steward Observatory, & Interim Director of CAAO

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

Areas of Interest: observational extragalactic astronomy; star formation and the interstellar medium in galaxies; galaxy formation, evolution, and chemical evolution; observational cosmology and the extragalactic distance scale

Kim, Jinyoung Serena

Associate Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy, Star and Planet Formation, Circumstellar Disk Evolution, Astrobiology

Kim, Daewook

Assistant Professor of Optical Sciences and Astronomy

Areas of Interest: Large freeform optics fabrication using Computer Controlled Optical Surfacing process, Optical metrology using Computer Generated Hologram/interferometry/deflectometry, Freeform optical system design/manufacturing

Kratter, Kaitlin

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy and Applied Math GIDP, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

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

Krause, Elisabeth

Associate Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Physics, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Kulesa, Craig

Associate Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Leisenring, Jarron

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Protoplanetary Disks, Extrasolar planets, high contrast imaging, IR Instrumentation

Lesser, Michael

Astronomer, Steward Observatory, Director, Imaging Technology Lab, & Research Professor, College of Optical Sciences

Areas of Interest: Instrumentation

Males, Jared

Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

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

Marrone, Dan

Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

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

Martin, Hubert (Buddy)

Project Scientist, Mirror Polishing Program and Associate Research Professor, Optical Sciences

Areas of Interest: Optical fabrication and testing, Active optics

McMillan, Robert S. (Bob)

Associate Research Scientist, LPL and Associate Research Scientist, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Stellar Astronomy, Planetary Astronomy, Instrumentation

Melia, Fulvio

Professor (Physics & Applied Math-GIDP) and Professor, Astronomy

Areas of Interest: Physics, Astronomy, Applied Math

Milne, Peter

Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation

Monson, Andy

Associate Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Morrison, Jane

Associate Staff Scientist, Steward Observatory

Morzinski, Katie

Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

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

Paschalidis, Vasileios

Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Assistant Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Pascucci, Ilaria

Professor, Planetary Sciences and Astronomy

Areas of Interest: Circumstellar disks, Planet Formation, Exoplanets, Astrobiology

Pearce, Eric

Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: 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.

Pickering, Timothy

Assistant Staff Scientist., MMT & Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Telescope Operations and Instrumentation, Galaxies and Galactic Dynamics, Time-domain Astronomy, AstroPy and AstroPy-affiliated Software Development

Poss, Richard

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy

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

Prather, Edward

Professor, Department of Astronomy

Areas of Interest: Education Research

Rieke, George H.

Regents' Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences; Astronomer, Steward Observatory; & Professor, Lunar and Planetary Lab

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

Rieke, Marcia J.

Regents' Professor of Astronomy, Astronomer and Elizabeth Roemer Endowed Chair, Steward Observatory

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

Robinson, Tyler

Associate Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences

Sand, David

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

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

Sarcevic, Ina

Professor Physics and Astronomy

Areas of Interest: Theoretical Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics

Sasian, Jose

Professor, Optical Sciences and Professor, Astronomy

Schlawin, Everett

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Exoplanets, Atmospheres, Instrumentation

Shirley, Yancy

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Star Formation, Interstellar Medium, Astrochemistry, Astrobiology

Shivaei, Irene

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Smith, Nathan

Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

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

Smith, Paul S.

Research Professor, Steward Observatory

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

Stark, Daniel

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Galaxy Formation and Evolution, cosmic reionization

Strittmatter, Peter A.

Regents' Professor of Astronomy and Astronomer, Steward Observatory

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

Su, Kate

Research Professor, Steward Observatory

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

Thompson, Rodger I.

Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

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

Tilanus, Remo

Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Vargas, Carlos J.

Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Assistant Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Galaxy Evolution, Star Formation, ISM/CGM, Disk-halo interface, Radio/sub-mm Astronomy, UV Instrumentation

Walker, Christopher

Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy, Star Formation, Instrumentation

Wang, Feige

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: High Redshift Quasars, cosmic reionization, Black Hole Growth, Galaxy Formation and Evolution

Weiner, Benjamin

Assistant Staff Scientist, MMT & Associate Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy & Cosmology, Instrumentation

West, Steve

Senior Research Scientist, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Instrumentation

Williams, Grant

Astronomer, Steward Observatory and Director MMT

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

Willmer, Christopher

Associate Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy

Wolff, Schuyler

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Circumstellar disks, Star and Planet Formation, Extrasolar planets, high contrast imaging

Yang, Jinyi

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory & Strittmatter Fellow

Areas of Interest: Reionization-era quasar survey, Cosmic reionization history, Supermassive black hole growth, BH-host co-evolution, and Quasar absorption systems

Yoshii, Yuzuru

Laureate Professor, Department of Astronomy

Youdin, Andrew

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

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

Zabludoff, Ann

Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology

Zaritsky, Dennis

Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Deputy Director and Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Areas of Interest: Extralactic Astronomy and Cosmology

Ziurys, Lucy

Regents' Professsor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Astronomy, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

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

Retirees
Arnett, W. David Regents' Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy Areas of Interest: Theoretical Astrophysics, Supernovae, Stellar Astronomy, Nuclear Astrophysics, High-Energy-Density Laser Experiments, Galactic Evolution
Axelrod, Tim Astronomer Emeritus
Bieging, John Emeritus Professor of Astronomy Areas of Interest: Interstellar Medium, Galactic Astronomy, Star Formation
Hege, E. Keith Associate Astronomer, Retired, Steward Observatory Areas of Interest: Instrumentation, Interferometry
Hoffmann, William F. Emeritus Professor of Astronomy Areas of Interest: Infrared Astronomy, Telescope building, astronomical instrumentation, Detector development, Dust in the Milky Way, Galactic Astronomy, Young Stars
Hubeny, Ivan Senior Research Scientist, Retired, Steward Observatory
McCarthy, Don Astronomer, Steward Observatory (retired 2022) Areas of Interest: Infrared Instrumentation, Interferometry, Adaptive Optics; Brown Dwarfs, Exoplanets, Solar System, Stellar Evolution; Astronomy Education
Olszewski, Edward W. Emeritus Professor of Astronomy Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy, Extragalactic Astronomy, Instrumentation
Pinto, Philip A. Emeritus Professor of Astronomy Areas of Interest: Theoretical Astrophysics
Schneider, Glenn Emeritus Research Professor of Astronomy Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy, Infrared Astronomy, Extrasolar planets, Brown Dwarfs, Star Formation, Instrumentation
Woolf, Neville J. Emeritus Professor of Astronomy Areas of Interest: Astrobiology, Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation, Instrumentation

Affiliated Faculty
Bailin, Jeremy Affiliate Associate Professor
Boyle, Richard Associate Astronomer
Corbally, Christopher UA Associate
Duschl, Wolfgang Astronomer
Gabor, Pavol Vice Director, VATT
Giampapa, Mark Astronomer
Jiang, Linhua J Affiliate Assistant Professor
Lee, Janice Affiliate Astronomer Areas of Interest: Extragalactic astronomy: stellar populations, star formation and the interstellar medium, Dwarf Galaxies, Galaxy Evolution
Pompea, Stephen Affiliate Professor, Astronomy Areas of Interest: Science education, Optical physics, Telescope system design, Space instrumentation
Sellwood, Jerry Affiliate Professor, Astronomy
Sykes, Mark Astronomer and Director of Planetary Science Institute (Tucson) Areas of Interest: Asteroids, Planetary Astronomy
Vestergaard, Marianne Associate Professor

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Faculty

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy & Assistant Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Regents' Professor, Professor of Astronomy and Optical Sciences, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Science; Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Associate Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Assistant Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Regents' Professor, Associate Head of the Department of Astronomy, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Professor of Practice, Department of Astronomy, & Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Assistant Director, Steward Observatory & Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Associate Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Astronomer, Steward Observatory, and Professor, College of Optical Sciences

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Assistant Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Research Professor, Steward Observatory & Technical Director, Large Binocular Telescope Observatory

Assistant Research Professor, MMT & Assistant Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Senior Research Associate

Distinguished Professor of Astronomy & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Head, Department of Astronomy, Director, Steward Observatory, Professor of Astronomy, Astronomer in Steward Observatory, & Interim Director of CAAO

Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Associate Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Assistant Professor of Optical Sciences and Astronomy

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy and Applied Math GIDP, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Associate Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Physics, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Associate Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Astronomer, Steward Observatory, Director, Imaging Technology Lab, & Research Professor, College of Optical Sciences

Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Project Scientist, Mirror Polishing Program and Associate Research Professor, Optical Sciences

Associate Research Scientist, LPL and Associate Research Scientist, Steward Observatory

Professor (Physics & Applied Math-GIDP) and Professor, Astronomy

Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Associate Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Associate Staff Scientist, Steward Observatory

Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Assistant Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Professor, Planetary Sciences and Astronomy

Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Assistant Staff Scientist., MMT & Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy

Professor, Department of Astronomy

Regents' Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences; Astronomer, Steward Observatory; & Professor, Lunar and Planetary Lab

Regents' Professor of Astronomy, Astronomer and Elizabeth Roemer Endowed Chair, Steward Observatory

Associate Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Professor Physics and Astronomy

Professor, Optical Sciences and Professor, Astronomy

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Assistant Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Regents' Professor of Astronomy and Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Astronomer, Steward Observatory

Research Professor, Steward Observatory

Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, & Assistant Astronomer, Steward Observatory