From CASS
Faculty and Researchers
Faculty and researchers from several departments (e.g., Physics, ECE, Chemistry) lead cutting edge research efforts in the diverse fields of astronomy and astrophysics. CASS researchers seek to understand the events and processes that shape our universe: the origins of structure and the elements, the nature of space and time, the formation of stars and galaxies, and supernova explosions.
Professors
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Burgasser, Adam
- Associate Professor, Physics
Hellman Fellow
- Email: aburgasser@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 340
- Phone: (858) 822-6958
- Observational astrophysics, focusing on very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs, low-temperature stellar and planetary atmospheres, and Galactic stellar populations.
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Coil, Alison
- Associate Professor, Physics
- Email: acoil@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 426
- Phone: (858) 822-3940
- Observational astrophysics, with a focus on galaxy evolution, observational cosmology, and large-scale structure
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Fuller, George
- Distinguished Professor, Physics and Director of CASS
- Email: gfuller@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 409
- Phone: (858) 534-9085
- Theoretical Astrophysics. Theoretical Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics. Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics.General relativity, especially as regards instability in massive objects. Physics of the early universe; gravitational collapse and supernovae, compact objects; nuclear and quark matter; the origin of nuclei, especially the light elements in the Big Bang and the heavy elements in supernovae; the weak interaction and neutrinos. A common theme running through much of Professor Fuller's work is the interplay of the weak interaction, nuclei, and gravitation.
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Griest, Kim
- Professor, Physics
- Email: kgriest@ucsd.edu
- Office: MH 3206 / SERF 337
- Phone: (858) 534-0924/8914
- Particle astrophysics/MACHO Project
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Keating, Brian
- Associate Professor, Physics
- Email: bkeating@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 333
- Phone: (858) 534-7930
- Observational and experimental cosmology, polarization and temperature measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Backround (CMB), near-infrared background measurements & cosmological reionization. Low noise detector and modulation mechanisms, microwave and infrared optics.
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Keres, Dusan
- Assistant Professor, Physics
- Email: dkeres@physics.ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 427
- Phone: (858) 822-1214
- Research area: Astrophysics/Astronomy. My research encompasses broad area of formation and evolution of galaxies, their halos and the inter-galactic medium. I use gravity+hydrodynamics simulations of structure formation in the universe to understand the cycling of baryons between galaxies and their surroundings. This includes topics of galactic infall, outflows, interactions, long term regulation of galaxy evolution and related observable consequences of these processes. I'm also interested in advances in numerical hydrodynamic techniques and physical models used in galaxy formation.
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Murphy, Thomas
- Associate Professor, Physics and Associate Director of CASS
- Email: tmurphy@physics.ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 336
- Phone: (858) 534-1844
- Solar-system tests of general relativity; Energy and the environment
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Norman, Michael
- Professor, Physics and Director of SDSC
- Email: mlnorman@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 424
- Phone: (858) 822-4194
- Computational Astrophysics: Cosmology, galaxy formation, star formation, high-energy astrophysics.
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Paar, Hans
- Professor, Physics
- Email: hpaar@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 326
- Phone: (858) 822-1232
- Experimental cosmology, in particular the experimental study of the properties of the Cosmic Microwave Background with emphasis on its polarization.
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Wolfe, Arthur
- Professor, Physics and Endowed Chair, Chancellor's Associates Chair IV
- Email: awolfe@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 423
- Phone: (858) 534-7435
- Galaxy formation - observation and theory
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Researchers
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Hinton, Fred
- Research Scientist, CASS
- Email: fhinton@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 303A
- Phone: (858) 534-7282
- Collisional and turbulent transport in magnetically confined plasmas.
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Kritsuk, Alexei
- Research Scientist
- Email: akritsuk@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 333A
- Phone: (858) 534-2943
- Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics: Physics of the multiphase interstellar medium, molecular clouds, star formation, and feedback processes. Intracluster medium, AGN feedback,and turbulence in clusters of galaxies. Compressible magnetized turbulence in astrophysical systems and beyond.
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Lai, David
- Assistant Research Scientist
- Email: dlai@physics.ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 333
- Phone: (858) 534-6626
- Stellar spectroscopy and abundance determinations
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Lingenfelter, Richard
- Research Physicist-Recalled, CASS
- Email: rlingenfelter@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 402
- Phone: (858) 534-2464
- His research interests range broadly from high-energy astrophysics theory in the origin and interactions of cosmic rays and the sources of gamma rays, through solar flare physics of neutron and gamma-ray emission, meteoritic isotope production, water on the Moon and Mars, and geophysics in radiocarbon and atmospheric neutron production, radiation belt sources, river flood flows, cloud formation and volcanoes, all the way to the history of the American West and Pacific Islands, mining labor and finance, and folk songs.
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Markowitz, Alex
- Assistant Project Scientist
- Email: almarkowitz@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 412
- Phone: (858) 534-8016
- X-ray spectroscopy and variability analysis of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
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Matteson, James
- Research Scientist
- Email: jmatteson@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 407
- Phone: (858) 534-4429
- X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy. Interactions and background effects of photon and particle radiation. Design and experimental characterization of position-sensitive solid-state detectors. Design and performance-modeling of X-ray and gamma-ray imaging instruments.
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Orlando, Angiola
- Assistant Project Scientist
- Email: aorlando@physics.ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 333
- Phone: (858) 534-8609
- Experimental and observational cosmology. Observations of cosmic microwave background temperature and polarization anisotropies, and their use to search for evidence of Inflation, constrain cosmological parameters and study the evolution of structure. Development of cryogenic detectors for astrophysics and cosmology. Experimental techniques for measurement from mm to infrared wavelengths.
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Puetter, Richard
- Research Physicist
- Email: rpuetter@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 317
- Phone: (858) 534-4945
- Quasars/AGN, IR astronomy, interstellar medium, radiative transfer, computational physics, inverse problems, image reconstruction, complexity theory, image compression
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Rebeiz, Gabriel
- Professor
- Email: grebeiz@ucsd.edu
- Office: EBU-I 5608
- Phone: (858) 534-8001
- Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) for microwave applications, design of radio frequency/microwave/millimeter-wave systems with radio-astronomical applications.
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Rephaeli, Yoel
- Research Scientist
- Email: yrephaeli@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 437
- Phone: (858) 534-1151
- Cosmology and high energy astrophysics, with main current foci on CMB cosmology, astrophysics of galaxy clusters, and high energy emission from starburst galaxies
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Rothschild, Richard
- Research Scientist, Associate Director of CASS, Adjunct Lecturer in Physics, Lead Scientist of the High Energy Astrophysics group
- Email: rrothschild@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 413
- Phone: (858) 534-3462
- High energy astrophysics, including but not limited to accreting X-ray pulsars, active galactic nuclei, high energy emission from clusters of galaxies; nuclear astrophysics, including the 511 keV positron annihilation radiation, and other line radiation (Al-26, Ti-44, etc.); high energy astrophysics instrumentation, including coded mask imaging and hard X-ray imaging telescopes; mission development, such as the MIRAX concept to monitor X-ray temporal variability for the central region of the Galaxy, hard X-ray telescope missions such as Nustar, Astro-H, and the International X-ray Observatory; humanitarian demining; and detection/monitoring of radionuclides at a distance.
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Skelton, Robert (Tom)
- Associate Project Scientist
- Email: tskelton@cass16.ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 406
- Phone: (858) 534-0962
- Development of Cadmium Zinc Telluride solid-state detectors for X-rays and gamma rays, and on ASICs to read out their signals.
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Skibba, Ramin
- Assistant Project Scientist
- Email: rskibba@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 429
- Phone: (858) 534-8575
- Galaxy clustering and interpreting large-scale structure measurements to constrain models of galaxy evolution.
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Professors Emeritus
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Burbidge, Geoffrey
- Professor Burbidge passed away on Jan. 26, 2010
- Theoretical astrophysics: Physics of active galaxies & quasi-stellar objects, nonthermal radiation processes, cosmology
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Burbidge, Margaret
- Professor Emeritus
- Email: eburbidge@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 330
- Phone: (858) 534-4477
- Theoretical astrophysics: Physics of active galaxies & quasi-stellar objects, nonthermal radiation processes, cosmology
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Coles, William
- Professor
- Email: bcoles@ucsd.edu
- Office: EBU-I 2407
- Phone: (858) 534-2703
- Solar Space Physics: Structure & turbulence in the solar wind; interstellar & interplanetary scintillation, theory of wave propagation.
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Shapiro, Vitaly
- Professor Shapiro (Physics) passed away June 28, 2010.
- Email: vshapiro@ucsd.edu
- Office: UH 7258
- Phone: (858) 534-8266
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Shu, Frank
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University Professor Emeritus
- Email: fhshu@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 330
- Phone: (858) 534-4477
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Academic Coordinator / Outreach
Visiting Researchers
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Ahn, Kyungjin
- Visiting Assistant Research Scientist
- Email: k7ahn@ucsd.edu
- Office: SERF 465 / SDSC 318E
- Collaborating with Professor Mike Norman to study the early phases of cosmic reionization by means of hydrodynamic cosmological simulations. They will simulate X-ray pre-ionization of the intergalactic medium by Pop III stars and protogalaxies using the Enzo code developed at UCSD.
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Krumpe, Mirko
- Visiting Assistant Project Scientist
- Email: mkrumpe@ucsd.edu
- Conducts collaborative research in CASS with Associate Professor of Physics Alison Coil and Visiting Associate Research Scientist Takamitsu Miyaji on clustering of galaxies and their evolution.
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Miyaji, Takamitsu
- Visiting Associate Research Scientist
- Email: miyaji@astrosen.unam.mx
- Conducts collaborative research in CASS with Associate Professor of Physics Alison Coil and Visiting Assistant Project Scientist Mirko Krumpe on clustering of galaxies and their evolution.
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