Field-Of-Study: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Sylvain Veilleux is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Maryland. Born in Montréal, Canada, he received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Montréal (B.Sc. in physics; 1984). He then moved to the United States and got his Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He spent his postdoctoral years

I am a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, with interests covering much of astronomy but a focus on compact objects (“stellar corpses”), stars and binaries, their structure, formation, and evolution, and their use to infer fundamental physical properties.  My research is grounded in observations, but includes interpretation, theory, and numerical

Shep Doeleman received his B.A. from Reed College in 1986, and left soon after for a year in Antarctica where he conducted multiple space-science experiments at McMurdo Station on the Ross Ice Shelf.  With an appreciation for the challenges and rewards of instrumental work in difficult circumstances, he returned to complete a Ph.D. in astrophysics

Dennis Zaritsky’s research interests span a range of topics primarily focused on extragalactic observational astronomy. Some highlights include the first measurements of dark matter masses out to the virial radii of individual galaxies, a standard reference for chemical abundance gradients in galaxies, the first spatially complete stellar census of the Magellanic Clouds to stars fainter

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Dale A. Frail is an astronomer who is best known for his work on gamma-ray bursts but he is also the co-discoverer of the first extrasolar planets. He works on a wide variety of research problems in high-energy astrophysics, including pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, soft-gamma-ray repeaters, supernova remnants, and more. In his research, Frail uses observations

Eve Ostriker is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the Maryland faculty in 1996, she held a prize postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University (A.B. in physics, magna cum laude, 1987), and her doctoral degree from the University of

Priya Natarajan is a Professor of Astronomy and of Physics at Yale University. She received bachelor’s degrees in both Physics and Mathematics from MIT (1991) where she was also the recipient of a Peter J. Eloranta Fellowship; the Burchard Fellowship and the Carroll Wilson Award during her undergraduate years. Intending to pursue a Ph.D. in

Clifford Martin Will is the James S. McDonnell Professor of Physics, and member of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Born in Hamilton, Canada, in 1946, he received his pre-college and college education there, obtaining a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from McMaster University in 1968.