People
The Department of Astronomy family at the University of
Florida is formed by an excellent group of people among which we find Faculty, Staff, Post-Docs, Gradaute
Students, Undergraduate
Students
and Alumni.
Faculty
 Stanley F.
Dermott
Professor and Chair. D.Sc., London, 2002. Infrared astronomy, solar system dynamics, satellite interiors, interplanetary dust, interpretation of spacecraft data. |
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 Reba M. Bandyopadhyay Assistant Scientist. D. Phil.
University of Oxford, UK, 1998. Infrared and X-ray observations of
X-ray binaries and related compact objects, especially of microquasars
and the X-ray source population of the Galactic Centre, IR
spectroscopy, and near-IR instrumentation for large telescopes.
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 Thomas D. Carr Professor
Emeritus. Ph.D., University of Florida, 1958. Low-frequency radio
emission, planetary
magnetospheres.
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| Howard L. Cohen Associate
Professor
Emeritus. Ph.D., Indiana University, 1968. Stellar occultations and
photoelectric photometry, astronomy education, calendars.
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 Steve S. Eikenberry Professor.
Ph.D.,
Harvard University, 1997. Infrared
instrumentation, infrared observations of compact objects, pulsars,
pulsar emission mechanisms, fourier techniques for time-series analysis.
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 Eric B. Ford Assistant
Professor .
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2003. Extrasolar Planetary Systems, Planet
Formation Theory, Planetary Dynamics, Extrasolar Planet Searches,
Modeling Stars & Planets, Astrostatistics, Astrobiology.
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 Jian Ge Professor.
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1998. Optical and Infrared
instrumentation and technology, extrasolar planets, brown dwarfs, young
stars, asteroseismology, quasar absorption line systems & high
redshift gamma ray bursts.
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 Anthony H. Gonzalez Assistant Professor. Ph.D.,
University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000. Galaxy and galaxy cluster
evolution, observational cosmology.
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 Stephen T. Gottesman Professor.
Ph.D., University of Manchester, 1967. Radio astronomy, interstellar
medium, galactic
structure and dynamics.
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 Bo A. S. Gustafson Professor
& Director of Laboratory for Astrophysics. Ph.D., University of
Lund (Sweden), 1981. Interplanetary dust, small body dynamics, light
scattering, laboratory
astrophysics, meteor science.
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 Rafael Guzmán Associate
Professor.
Ph.D., Durham University, 1994.
Starburst galaxies at high redshift, infrared instrumentation.
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 Fred W. Hamann Professor.
Ph.D.,
SUNY, Stony Brook, 1987. Quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGNs),
pre- and post-main sequence stars, elemental abundances and chemical
enrichment in galaxies and AGNs, star formation and galaxy evolution at
high redshifts, spectral diagnostics of astrophysical environments.
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 James H. Hunter Professor.
Ph.D., University of California, 1964. Theoretical astrophysics,
stellar formation.
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Oleg Kargaltsev Assistant
Scientist. Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 2004. X-ray,
optical, IR and radio observations of neutron stars and related
phenomena, particularly pulsar winds (both observations and radiative
MHD modeling). Galactic TeV and GeV sources in relation to compact
objects. Other interests include gamma-ray bursts (both observations and
theory), microquasars, isolated BHs, jets, CMBR.
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 Thomas J. Kehoe Assistant
Scientist. Ph.D., Astronomy, Queen Mary, University of London,
1999. Solar System Dynamics, asteroids and interplanetary dust, the
zodiacal cloud and other debris disks.
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 Elizabeth A. Lada Professor.
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1990. Recent
projects include WIRE (Wide Field Infrared Explorer Associate
Investigator), embedded clusters, Rosette molecular clouds, and near IR
extinction studies.
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| George R. Lebo Associate
Professor Emeritus. Ph.D., University of Florida, 1964.
Low-frequency Jovian radio
emission.
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 John P. Oliver Associate
Professor
Emeritus. Ph.D.,
University of California at Los Angeles, 1974. Computer-controlled
optical instrumentation, eclipsing binaries, astronomy education.
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 Cristopher C. Packham Associate
Scientist.
Ph.D., University of
Hertfordshire, UK, 1997. Infrared astrophysics at near and mid-IR
wavelengths including instrumentation for large telescopes and studies
of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their near nuclear environments.
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 Steven "Nick" Raines Assistant
Scientist.
Ph.D., University of Rochester,
2000. Galactic star formation, Herbig-Haro objects and near-infrared
instrumentation.
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 Francisco J. Reyes Associate
Scientist & Director of UF Radio Observatory. Ph.D., University
of Florida, 1989. Low frequency radio and planetary radio
astronomy, low frequency studies of pulsars, radio astronomical
instrumentation, computer controlled astronomical instrumentation.
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 Ata Sarajedini Associate
Professor. Ph.D., Yale University, 1992. Resolved
stellar
populations, galaxy formation, chemical enrichment in galaxies. We
can
investigate the formation and evolution of galaxies by studying the
detailed properties of their constituent stars. The ages,
metallicities, and kinematics of these stars shed light on the question
of structure formation from the early Universe to today.
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 Vicki L. Sarajedini Associate
Professor. Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1997. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) from the local universe to
redshifts of z=1. Variability studies of AGN. Host galaxy
morphologies and the connection between normal galaxy and AGN
evolution. X-ray and IR
observations of active galaxies.
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 Haywood C. Smith Jr. Associate
Professor. Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1972. Methodology of
luminosity calibration using trigonometric parallaxes and proper
motions including, but not restricted to, Bayesian methods. Emphasis on
Trumpler-Weaver, Lutz-Kelker, and Malmquist biases.
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 Jonathan Tan Assistant
Professor. Ph.D.,
University of California, Berkeley, 2001. Theoretical Astrophysics,
including star formation, galaxy formation, interstellar medium and
gamma-ray bursts.
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 Charles M. Telesco Professor.
Ph.D.,
University of Chicago, 1977. Infrared
astrophysics. Design
and construction of cutting edge mid-infrared instrumentation for use
on major telescopes around the world. Includes multifaceted research
from comet studies to the search for circumstellar disks.
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 Xiaoke Wan Assistant
Scientist. Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2003. Optical
Instrumentation.
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 Robert E. Wilson Professor.
Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1963. Close
binary stars, stellar interiors, analysis of light, radial velocity
curves.
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Last Updated 01.Sep.2007
