| Fred Hamann Professor PhD 1987 (SUNY Stony Brook) www.astro.ufl.edu/~hamann/ 210 Bryant Space Science Center (352) 392 2052 (245)  |
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Areas of Specialty
Quasars, active galaxies, active galactic nuclei (AGN), super-massive black holes (SMBHs), accretion disk outflows, star formation and galaxy evolution at high redshifts, inter-galactic medium, winds and circumstellar environments of extreme massive stars, luminous blue variabile stars, Eta Carinae, spectroscopy and radiative processes.
Research Interests
Most of my research focusses on quasars and AGN, but I have wide ranging interests in galaxy evolution, star formation, galactic chemical enrichment, post-main sequence evolution of massive stars, astrophysical outflows and radiation physics. My main interests in AGN are to understand i) the basic physics and physical properties of their environments, including especially their accretion disk outflows, and ii) the relationship of AGN (powered generically by accretion onto an SMBH) to the much broader picture of star formation and galaxy evolution across cosmic time. I am also on a Hubble Space Telescope Treasury team to study the extremely massive evolve star, Eta Carinae.
Biography
I earned B.S. degrees in astronomy-physics and mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, and completed my PhD on the topic of young (pre-main sequence) stars and circumstellar envelopes in 1987 at SUNY - Stony Brook. After my PhD, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, and then a Columbus Fellow at The Ohio State University. In 1993, I took a position at the University of California, San Diego, as a member of Faint Object Spectrograph science team for the Hubble Space Telescope. In that position, I was an assistant and then associate research scientist. I joined the faculty at UF in 1999 and became full professor in 2003.
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