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Stephen EikenberryProfessor
PhD 1997 (Harvard)404 Bryant Space Science Center 
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Areas of Specialty
Infrared instrumentation, multi-wavelength (esp. X-ray and infrared) observations of compact objects, black holes, neutron stars, relativistic jet formation, massive stars.
Research Interests
My research focuses on studying black holes, neutron stars, and the massive stars that make them. I also design and build astronomical instruments (primarily infrared and optical) to carry out these observations.
Biography
I am currently the Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor of Astronomy at UF. I completed my PhD in Astronomy at Harvard University in 1997 under Dr. Giovanni Fazio, and from there moved to the Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship in Physics at Caltech. I moved next to an Assistant Professorship (1998) and then tenured Associate Professorship (2002) in Astronomy at Cornell University, where I also won an NSF CAREER award in 2000. In 2003, I left Cornell to become a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Florida.