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The listing below represents the Institute's Post-Doctoral Staff. Informaton includes: name and photo, areas of scientific interest, and a personal URL. "Clicking" on a picture will reveal their contact information. The list may also be filtered by area of interest. | ||
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 Francesca Annibali |
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Postdoc 11/15/2005-09/01/2008 |
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Interests focus on galaxy formation and evolution. Currently working on nearby dwarf irregular galaxies, both from the observational and theoretical aspect. Also working on integrated stellar populations, with particular focus on early-type galaxies. Developed models of simple and composite stellar populations for the prediction of line strength indices in galaxies. The SSPs models are available to the public. |
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 Kate Brand |
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Postdoc Giacconi Fellow 09/13/2006-09/30/2009 |
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Multi-wavelength studies of high redshift AGN; dusty, optically obscured ULIRGs; the accretion history of supermassive black holes; clustering and environmental studies of AGN. |
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 Christopher J. Burke |
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Postdoc 04/22/2006-05/31/2009 |
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Extrasolar Planets, Star Cluster Age Dating Techniques, Theoretical Stellar Structure, and Computational Astronomy |
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 Julio Chaname |
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Postdoc 09/15/2005-10/01/2008 |
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Formation of the Milky Way and the Local Group; the nature of the dark
matter in galaxy halos, including that of the Milky Way; dwarf galaxies in
clusters and the Local Group; stellar dynamics; stellar structure and
evolution; stellar populations in the Solar neighborhood; wide binary
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 Will Clarkson |
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Postdoc 11/01/2005-10/31/2008 |
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Detection and characterisation of extrasolar planets; Kinematics and source population of the galactic bulge; Accretion in eccentric-orbit compact binaries; X-ray dust scattering by the ISM; Accretion disk-warps
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 Katrina Exter |
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Postdoc 08/07/2006-07/31/2008 |
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I am currently working on binary central systems of planetary nebulae and on the environment of V838 Mon. In addition I work on integral field spectroscopy of extended sources - PNe, starburst environments, star fields, and ULX nebulae.
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 Aaron Grocholski |
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Postdoc 07/02/2007-07/01/2010 |
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 Benne Holwerda |
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Postdoc 08/22/2005-09/30/2008 |
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I am Postdoc with Roelof S. de Jong and Ron J. Allen on different projects here at STSCI. My thesis work and follow-up is the opacity of spiral galaxy disks using the number of distant galaxies in HST images as an indicator. As part of the SINGS team, I compared these counts of distant objects to infrared indicators of dust. Spitzer's view on edge-on spirals is my current focus (ISM distribution, truncation), as well as processing the counts in large ACS mosaics of M51, M101 and M81. My manual on Source Extractor is still pretty useful.
My research interests are: (1) the opacity of spiral disks, (2) the structure of spiral disks, both ISM and stars, (3) the formation and evolution of spiral disks." |
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 Susan Kern |
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Postdoc 11/01/2006-10/31/2009 |
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My work focuses on Kuiper belt binaries. I've been a member of the Deep Ecliptic Survey (DES) team, a group that discovers, catalogs and follows up on Kuiper Belt objects for the purposes of dynamical and physical studies. My primary observations are photometric in nature and include lightcurves and orbits for these objects. |
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 Nathaniel Paust |
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Postdoc 7/26/2006-06/30/08 |
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 Asaf Pe'er |
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Postdoc Giaconni Fellow 10/01/2007-09/30/2010 |
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Theoretical high energy astrophysics. High energy emission in compact objects such as GRBs, AGNs and X-ray binaries. Relativistic gas dynamics. Astroparticle physics.
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 Eric Peng |
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Postdoc 10/08/2007-09/30/2008 |
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 David Radburn-Smith |
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Postdoc 01/08/2007-12/31/2008 |
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Research focuses on galaxy evolution and large-scale structure and dynamics. In particular: the structure and assembly of local galaxies; galaxy clusters and superclusters; structure behind the Galactic plane; galaxy peculiar motions. |
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 Michael Santos |
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Giacconi Fellow 09/01/2005-08/31/2008 |
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Galaxy formation and evolution, especially in the very high-redshift universe; structure formation; studying faint, early galaxies using strong lensing; reionization; globular cluster system formation; N-body simulations. |
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 Marta Sewilo |
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Postdoc 03/05/2007-03/31/11 |
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 Michele Trenti |
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Postdoc 10/03/2005-12/31/2008 |
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Galaxy formation and evolution; structure formation; globular cluster dynamics; N-body simulations and methods |
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