The list includes AURA, ESA, and CSA research staff at STScI, as well as emeritus astronomers, postdocs, and students.
| Name | Position/Title | Science Interests | Personal Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ronald Allen | AURA Astronomer (SMO) | PDR Physics and applications to the large-scale ISM in galaxies. The total ISM content of spiral galaxy disks. Fourier Optics, and synthesis imaging. | Website |
| Alessandra Aloisi | Scientist, Manager, COS/STIS Team Lead (INS) | Galaxy formation and evolution; star-forming galaxies; stellar populations; star-formation histories; massive stars and ISM in starburst galaxies. | None |
| Jay Anderson | Observatory Scientist (INS) | Globular cluster populations and dynamics; high-precision proper motions and photometry of stars in clusters. | None |
| Tracy Beck | AURA Scientist (INS) | Associate Scientist | None |
| John Biretta | AURA Scientist (INS) | AURA Scientist | None |
| Ralph Bohlin | AURA Astronomer (INS) | Precise flux calibration of standards stars. | None |
| Howard E. Bond | AURA Emeritus Astronomer (SMO) | Stellar astronomy; planetary nebulae; binary stars; white dwarfs; astrometry; Milky Way and extragalactic distance scale; omit extrasolar planets; cataclysmic variables and novae; light echoes and optical transients. | Website |
| Larry Bradley | Postdoc |
Formation and evolution of galaxies in the early universe; high-redshift galaxies; strong gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters; stellar populations | Website |
| Robert Brown | AURA Astronomer (CMO) | Planetary physics. Comparison of strategies for detecting and characterizing extrasolar planets. Development of performance metrics based on completeness and applications to astrometry, radial velocity, direct detection, photometric orbit, and microlensing. Statistical methods, including density estimation and Monte Carlo experiments. Current focus: understanding the scientific potential of the microlensing survey of extrasolar planets that Astro2010 recommended. | None |
| Tom Brown | AURA Astronomer, JWST Mission Scientist | Stellar populations, stellar evolution, galactic evolution, hot stars, spectral synthesis, late stages of stellar evolution, future space missions. | Website |
| Howard Bushouse | AURA Scientist (OED) | Nature and evolution of interacting galaxies, with primary interest in their global star formation properties. Luminous IR galaxies. Starburst galaxies. | Website |
| Stefano Casertano | AURA Observatory Scientist (HSTMO) | Study the evolution of galaxies and of dark matter from intermediate to high redshift. My main current interest is weak lensing based on HST data. I also work on astrometric searches for planets with GAIA and SIM. | None |
| Pierre Chayer | CSA Scientist (INS) | Stellar atmospheres of white dwarfs and subdwarfs. | None |
| Christine Chen | AURA Associate Astronomer (INS) | dust and gas in debris disks, the formation and evolution of exoplanetary systems including oligarchic growth and the epoch of giant collisions (e.g. the Moon-forming even in our solar system) | Website |
| Marco Chiaberge | ESA-AURA Research Staff (INS) | Active Galactic Nuclei: Radio galaxies, jets, accretion processes around supermassive black holes, radio-quiet and radio-loud AGNs, the relationship between the narrow line regions of Seyfert galaxies and their soft X-ray emission, the properties of low luminosity radio galaxies at 1<z<2 and their cluster environment. | Website |
| Carol Christian | AURA Observatory Scientist, Community Missions Office Deputy (CMO) | Stellar Populations; Open, Populous and Globular-type clusters Information Technologies; Distributed Data Systems & Active Archives; Applications of Instructional Technology Public understanding of science; K-12 curricula, standards, evaluation and systemic reform; informal science education methodologies, standards and evaluation. | Website |
| Dan Coe | Postdoc | Galaxy clusters, gravitational lensing, dark matter, structure formation, cosmology, and photometric redshift estimation. I am working primarily on CLASH, the Hubble Multi Cycle Treasury project to study galaxy clusters. | Website |
| Nicolas Crouzet | Postdoc |
Search and characterization of transiting exoplanets: photometric instrumentation, observation and data analysis. I will work on the XO project. | None |
| Tomas Dahlen | AURA Scientist | Supernovae and high redshift supernova rates. Galaxy formation and evolution. Evolution of the cosmic star formation rate. Photometric redshifts. | Website |
| Selma de Mink | Postdoc--Hubble Fellow |
Massive stars, interacting binaries, effects of rotation, mergers, stellar evolution and population synthesis, multiple populations in globular clusters, stellar evolution at low metallicity, chemical enrichment, progenitors of supernovae and gamma-ray bursts | Website |
| John H. Debes | ESA-AURA Research Staff (INS) |
Exoplanets, debris disks, white dwarfs, the fate of planetary systems | Website |
| Susana Deustua | AURA Associate Scientist (INS) | Precision Spectrophotometric Calibration, Observational Cosmology, Dark Energy, IR Instruments, Astronomy Education Research. | Website |
| Van Dixon | AURA Scientist (INS) | In my research, I use the technique of ultraviolet spectroscopy to study a variety of phenomena, including hot stars in globular clusters and hot gas in the interstellar medium. | None |
| Aaron Dotter | Postdoc |
Stellar evolution and stellar populations. | Website |
| Julia Duval | ESA-AURA (INS) | My research focuses on the Interstellar Medium in the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, and nearby galaxies. I use both gas and dust as tracers to answer fundamental questions about star formation. I am particularly interested in investigating how the gas collapses and fragments to form stars and star clusters, and what causes the onset of star formation (e.g., turbulence, gravity, shocks...). I am also currently working on the properties of dust in the Magellanic Clouds and how these properties change with local environment. | None |
| Tracy Ellis | CSC Operations Astronomer | Photometry and modeling of the gas and dust distributions in the inner comae of comets. | None |
| Michael Fall | AURA Astronomer (SMO) | Astrophysics | None |
| Harry Ferguson | AURA Astronomer (INS) |
Cosmology. Galaxy Formation and Evolution. Deep Fields. Dwarf Galaxies (particularly dwarf ellipticals). Stellar Populations. Gravitational lensing. | Website |
| Kathy Flanagan | AURA Senior Scientist, Deputy Directory (DO) | Supernova remnants and the development of new instruments for space. | Website |
| Andrew Fox | ESA-AURA Astronomer (SMO) | Galaxy evolution; galactic inflow and outflow; interstellar and intergalactic media; high-velocity clouds; damped Lyman-alpha systems. | Website |
| Scott Friedman | AURA Scientist (INS) | My main interests are study of the abundance and distribution of deuterium in the interstellar medium. I am also interested in the properties of diffuse interstellar bands. | None |
| Andrew Fruchter | AURA Associate Astronomer (SMO) | My primary research topic at this time is the study of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their host galaxies. I also study other compact objects, in particular radio pulsars. I am interested in observations of distant galaxies, and I work on methods for improving the imaging of these and other objects with HST. | Website |
| Alex Fullerton | AURA (INS) | Stellar atmospheres and winds of hot, massive stars. | None |
| Ronald Gilliland | AURA Emeritus Astronomer (SMO) | Primary research interests are in the detection of extra solar planets including Earth-like planets, and the characterization of stars via study of solar-like oscillations. Both of these are approached observationally via very high-precision, time-series photometry searching for planet transits and p-mode oscillations. | None |
| David Golimowski | AURA Associate Scientist (INS) | Circumstellar and protoplanetary disks; extrasolar planetary systems; very low mass stars and brown dwarfs; the solar neighborhood | Website |
| Karl Gordon | AURA Associate Astronomer (INS) | Interstellar dust in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies; Understanding the full range of dust properties and how they vary with environment (e.g., dust formation and effects of nearby star formation on dust); Dusty radiative transfer and dust emission in arbitrary 3D geometries (e.g., clumpy dust) of stars, gas, and dust (DIRTY model); Infrared instrumentation, specifically operations, data reduction, and calibration. | Website |
| Paul Goudfrooij | AURA Scientist (INS) | Properties of star clusters in galaxies along the Hubble sequence. Assembly history of early-type galaxies and bulges of spiral galaxies. Stellar Populations in external galaxies. Formation and evolution of globular clusters and globular cluster systems. The nature of multiple stellar populations in star clusters. The multi-phase ISM in early-type galaxies. Simulation of astronomical data. Optimization of instrument calibration. Building analysis pipelines of astronomical software. | Website |
| Norman Grogin | AURA Associate Scientist (INS) | Galaxy formation and evolution, with particular interest in AGN-galaxy coevolution; Deep fields; Large-scale structure; Gravitational lensing; Extragalactic globular cluster systems. | None |
| Robert Hanisch | AURA Senior Scientist/VAO Director | Interested in fostering multi-facility/multi-wavelength astronomical research through the virtual observatory. I have also worked in the areas of image restoration, electronic publications, and software system design and management. | Website |
| George Hartig | AURA Senior Scientist (INS) |
My research included the study of AGN and their interaction with the IGM and host galaxies. I also pursue the development of novel instrumentation. | None |
| Mike Hauser | AURA Emeritus Astronomer (SMO) | Developed and used infrared and submillimeter instruments from ground-based, balloon-borne, and space based telescopes to study the cosmic microwave and infrared background radiations, cosmology, the the interstellar medium, and the interplanetary medium. | None |
| Dean Hines | AURA Scientist |
I use ultraviolet, optical and infrared imaging, spectropolarimetry and spectroscopy, and radio imaging to investigate dusty astrophysical phenomena including the zodiacal debris in our solar system, material forming planets around young stars, supernova remnants, and the obscuring tori in Active Galactic Nuclei. I am also involved with instrumentation having been a member of the HST/NICMOS and Spitzer/MIPS instrument teams, and currently the JWST/MIRI team. | Website |
| Helmut Jenkner | ESA Research Staff w/tenure (HSTMO) | Chemically peculiar upper main sequence stars; Variability surveys in HST FGS data; Astronomical catalogs. | None |
| Jason Kalirai | AURA Associate Astronomer (JWSTMO) | I study the formation and evolution of stars and galaxies in the local universe. My current research interests involve imaging and spectroscopic observations of resolved stellar populations, such as nearby star clusters and dwarf galaxies. | Website |
| Susan Kassin | AURA Assistant Astronomer (INS) | I study the formation and evolution of galaxies. Much of my research focuses on observing the internal kinematics of galaxies today and over the last 8 billion years. I interpret these observations through the lens of theory, much of which relies on supercomputer simulations. Most recently I have been studying how disk galaxies obtain the ordered dynamical state that they have today. | Website |
| Charles (Tony) Keyes | AURA Scientist (INS) |
Physics of low-to-intermediate density plasmas, planetary nebulae; interacting binary stars, outbursts and structure of symbiotic stars in particular | None |
| Anton Koekemoer | AURA Scientist (INS) | Formation of supermassive black holes and galaxies in the distant early universe and their growth across cosmic time; carrying out large-scale surveys to search for such objects and increase our understanding of the physical processes that drive their formation and growth, as well as the inter-relationships that exist between galaxies and their central supermassive black holes. | Website |
| Gerard Kriss | AURA Astronomer, Instruments Scientist (INS) | Multiwavelength studies of active galaxies and quasars, concentrating on UV and X-ray observations of outflowing, absorbing gas; also studies the ionization and composition of the intergalactic medium. | None |
| Brandon Lawton | Outreach Astronomer |
Interstellar medium of galaxies; properties of dust in the interstellar medium; star formation rate indicators; diffuse interstellar bands; astrochemistry; starburst galaxies; and QSO absorption-line systems. | Website |
| Janice Lee | AURA Assistant Astronomer (INS) | Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution; Calibration of Star Formation Indicators; Observational Constraints on the Stellar Initial Mass Function; Panchromatic Galaxy Surveys of the Local Volume; Extending Emission-Line Selected Galaxy Surveys to Higher Redshift; all with focus on dwarf galaxies. | Website |
| Claus Leitherer | AURA Astronomer, Head of Science Policies Group, Acting Deputy Science Division (SMO) | Main scientific interests are atmospheres and evolution of hot stars, resolved and unresolved massive stellar populations, the stellar content and interstellar medium of star-forming galaxies, starburst activity in galaxies, and spectrophotometric evolution models of galaxies. | Website |
| Mario Livio | AURA Astronomer (SMO) | Supernovae Type Ia and cosmology; The nature of "dark energy"; Anthropics; The formation of astrophysical jets; The physics of and around black holes; Compact binary stars; Planet formation; Astrobiology; Various topics in mathematics. | Website |
| Knox Long | AURA Astronomer (INS) | Supernova Remnants, X-ray properties of normal galaxies, cataclysmic variables, winds in AGN | Website |
| Jennifer Lotz | AURA Associate Astronomer | Galaxy mergers, galaxy evolution, quantitative morphology, and numerical simulations | Website |
| Steve Lubow | AURA Observatory Scientist (OED) | AURA Observatory Scientist | None |
| Chun Ly | Postdoc - Giacconi Fellow | Chun's primary research interest is on high redshift galaxy formation and evolution, and has experience working at radio, infrared, optical, UV, and x-ray wavelengths. He is also interested in understanding how extragalactic jets are formed by using high resolution very long baseline interferometry techniques. | Website |
| John MacKenty | AURA Senior Scientist, WFC3 Branch Lead (INS) | Instrument design and development. Detector and MEMS technologies. Star formation in active galaxies, starburst galaxies, and stellar populations. | None |
| Duccio Macchetto | AURA Emeritus Astronomer (SMO) | My main interest is in Active Galaxies and in particular the measurement of their central black holes, the role of jets, the role of dust in the unification scheme of AGN and the properties of FRI and FRII sources. I am also interested in the ISM of ellipticals galaxies. | None |
| André Martel | CSA Scientist (INS) |
Environments and hosts of AGNs and QSOs; ISM and GCs of early-type galaxies | None |
| Elena Mason | ESA-AURA Research | variables (all subclasses) and interacting binaries. Spectroscopy (preferably mid to high resolution) and science cases which benefit of spectroscopy, time resolved spectroscopy and/or multi-waveband spectroscopy. | None |
| Peter McCullough | AURA Associate Astronomer (INS) | Leads the XO Project, the long term goal of which is to find and study habitable worlds. In the near term XO searches photometrically for transiting extrasolar planets, primarily hot gas giants. | Website |
| Brian McLean | AURA Observatory Scientist, Deputy Archive Science Branch (OED) | Sky surveys and catalogs; Galaxy structure and evolution; Contact binary systems. | Website |
| Margaret Meixner | AURA Astronomer (INS) | Using infrared and millimeter observations, I study the circumstellar environments of dusty stars in our Galaxy and nearby galaxies (e.g. The Magellanic Clouds); in particular the dust and warm neutral gas. Designing and building infrared cameras. | Website |
| Matt Mountain | STScI Director (DO) | to be added | Website |
| James Muzerolle | AURA Associate Scientist (INS) | Star and planet formation, pre-main sequence stars, circumstellar disks, optical and infrared observations, radiative transfer modeling. | None |
| Ed Nelan | AURA Observatory Scientist (INS) | AURA Observatory Scientist | None |
| Kai Noeske | Astronomer (ESA) | Galaxy formation from high redshift to now; history and mechanisms of star formation at all cosmic times; deep multi-wavelength surveys; dwarf galaxies | None |
| Colin Norman | JHU/STScI Astronomer (SMO) | I have the pleasure of working in theoretical astrophysics and trying to understand phenomena such as dark matter, dark energy, black holes, star formation and evolution, galaxy formation and evolution, planet formation and evolution and associated possibilities for life on exoplanets. From time to time I have been honored to be involved with excellent colleagues on the design of large-scale space projects and also using existing space telescopes such as Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray telescope and with ground-based follow upon large telescopes such as the VLT. | None |
| Antonella Nota | ESA Research Staff w/tenure | Massive stars, stellar evolution, circumstellar nebulae. Stellar populations, young star clusters, Initial Mass Function. | None |
| Cristina Oliveira | ESA-AURA Research Staff (INS) | ESA-AURA Research Staff | None |
| Rachel Osten | AURA Assistant Astronomer | Dynamics of cool star atmospheres, multiwavelength observations of stellar flares, magnetic activity at radio and X-ray wavelengths, spectroscopy of stellar chromospheres and coronae | None |
| Nino Panagia | AURA Emeritus Astronomer (SMO) | Theory and observations of (1) Supernovae and supernova remnants (2) Stellar winds (3) Star forming regions and young stellar populations, and (4) Cosmology: Distance Scale, Expansion and Acceleration of the Universe, Primordial Galaxies. | Website |
| Maria Pena-Guerrero | Postdoc |
Chemical abundances and physical conditions of photoionized objects. Supernova and other energetic events. | None |
| Marshall Perrin | Associate Astronomer (INS) | Direct imaging of exoplanets and planet-forming environments in circumstellar disks. High contrast observation techniques including advanced coronagraphy, polarimetry, and interferometry. | Website |
| Larry Petro | AURA Scientist (INS) | Extrasolar planets, planetary debris disks, and the low-surface brightness universe are my scientific areas of interest. I am especially interested in applying new technology to study these objects. | None |
| Nor Pirzkal | ESA-AURA Research Staff (INS) | High redshift star forming galaxies. Grism surveys. Low mass stars and galactic structure. | Website |
| Klaus Pontoppidan | AURA Associate Astronomer | Observational planet formation, chemistry of protoplanetary disks, formation and evolution of volatiles (e.g., water) in the interstellar medium and disks, techniques in high resolution infrared imaging spectroscopy, in particular molecular spectroscopy. | Website |
| Marc Postman | AURA Astronomer, Head Community Missions Office (CMO) | Formation and evolution of large-scale structure in the universe, morphology and dynamics of galaxy groups, clusters, and superclusters, gravitational lensing, and observational cosmology. | Website |
| Charles Proffitt | Operations Astronomer (CSC) |
Chemical abundances (especially boron and s-process elements) and related non-LTE calculations in B stars. Diffusion in stellar atmospheres and interiors. | None |
| Mike Regan | AURA Observatory Scientist (INS) | Barred galaxies dynamics and kinematics; ISM in Nearby Galaxies; Star Formation. | None |
| I. Neill Reid | AURA Astronomer; Head of Science Mission Office | Galactic structure andth formation of the Milky Way, the stellar mass function in the Solar Neighbourhood and beyond, low mass stars and brown dwarfs, extrasolar planets and astrobiology. | Website |
| Armin Rest | Assistant Astronomer (INS) | SN as cosmological standard candles. Light echoes of historic and ancient supernovae. Exotic supernovae. Optical follow-up of SZ-detected galaxy clusters by the South Pole telescope. Probing the nature of the Galactic dark matter halo with microlensing. Galactic density profile with RR Lyrae stars. Data reduction pipelines for time-domain wide-field surveys. | None |
| Adam Riess | AURA Distinguished Astronomer (INS) | Cosmology from Supernovae, Dark Energy, the Distance Scale, Cepheids, etc. | Website |
| Massimo Robberto | AURA Scientist (INS) | Star formation, disk evolution, Orion Nebula, IR instrumentation. | Website |
| Russell Ryan | Postdoc | Galaxy evolution, photometric redshifts, Galactic structure | None |
| Elena Sabbi | ESA-AURA Research Staff (INS) | Star formation, stellar evolution, formation and evolution of star clusters, stellar populations, initial mass function, star formation histories, pre-main sequence stars. | None |
| Kailash Sahu | AURA Associate Astronomer (SMO) | Gravitational microlensing; detecting and measuring the masses of isolated, stellar-mass black holes through microlensing; search for extra-solar planets through transits and microlensing. | Website |
| Jonathan Seale | Postdoc 9/6/10-9/30/13 |
Evolutionary massive star formation; spectroscopy and multi-wavelength imaging of massive star formation regions in the Magellanic Clouds; interferometric observations that probe the parsec-scale structure of giant molecular clouds; properties of the interstellar medium on both local and galactic scales | None |
| Kenneth Sembach | AURA Astronomer / STScI HST Mission Head (HSTMO) | Interests include the evolution and baryonic content of the intergalactic medium, the physical conditions and properties of gaseous material inside galaxies, and the feedback on the ISM and IGM produced by supernovae and star-formation processes. | None |
| Anand Sivaramakrishnan | AURA Scientist (INS) | AURA Scientist | None |
| Myron Smith | CSC Scientist | High dispersion spectroscopy in optical/UV/X-ray wavelength regions. Dynamic processes in atmospheres and circumstellar environs of main sequence B stars, including pulsations, magnetic fields, flares, and circulating winds. | Website |
| Linda Smith | ESA Research Staff/ACS Team Lead INS) | Young massive star clusters in star-forming galaxies; starburst galaxies and supergalactic winds; hot massive stars and stellar wind interactions. | None |
| David Soderblom | AURA Astronomer (INS) | Evolutionary properties of solar-type stars; solar-type stars as a population for Galactic studies; age determinations of stars; low-mass stars as targets for planet searches and SETI; Sun-like phenomena seen in stars; high-resolution spectroscopy. | None |
| Tony Sohn | Postdoc 8/17/09-8/17/12 |
Hot stars in old stellar populations, tidal disruption of dwarf galaxies, star-forming galaxies, and proper motions of nearby galaxies. | Website |
| Paule Sonnentrucker | ESA-AURA |
Physics and chemistry of diffuse, dense, star-forming clouds; multi-wavelength spectroscopy; atomic and molecular astrophysics; astrobiology | None |
| Remi Soummer | AURA Associate Astronomer | AURA Associate Astronomer | None |
| William Sparks | AURA Astronomer/Development Manager (CMO) | Astrobiology, search for life, planet detection and characterization. Polarization instrumentation and applications. Optical observations of radio galaxies. Geometric distances from light echoes./> | None |
| Massimo Stiavelli | AURA Astromer (JWSTMO) | My main interest is the formation and evolution of galaxies from first light to the present. I am especially interested in the evolution of their stellar populations and metal content, in their feedback on the IGM, and in the interplay between central black holes and galaxy properties. | Website |
| Peter Stockman | AURA Emeritus Astronomer (SMO) | Interested in the formation of the earliest stars and galaxies. I spend most of my time on the development of the James Webb Space Telescope which will be used for such studies. | None |
| Frank Summers | Outreach Astrophysicist (OPO) | My research has studied cosmology in general, and the formation of galaxies and clusters of galaxies in particular. I have done large scale N-body plus hydrodynamics simulations and run a 31 node beowulf cluster. | None |
| Christopher Thom | Postdoc |
High-velocity clouds in the Milky Way halo; low-redshift IGM and the gaseous halos of galaxies. | None |
| Jason Tumlinson | AURA Associate Astronomer (INS) | The first stars, galaxy formation, the interstellar and intergalactic medium, nucleosynthesis", omitting that first clause starting "In the telegraphic form." | Website |
| Jeff Valenti | AURA Associate Astronomer (INS) | Exoplanet detection and characterization, Stellar properties via spectroscopy and radiative transfer, Pre-main-sequence stars, Stellar activity and magnetic fields. | None |
| Roeland Van der Marel | AURA Astronomer, Telescopes Lead (INS) | Galaxy Structure and Dynamics; Black Holes; Optical and near-IR Spectroscopy and Imaging; Stellar Dynamics Theory. | Website |
| Kevin Volk | CSA Scientist (INS) | I am interested in planetary nebula physics, and in the study of circumstellar and interstellar dust particularly the dust around evolved intermediate mass stars. | Website |
| Nolan Walborn | AURA Astronomer (INS) | Optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray morphology of OB spectra in the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. Evolutionary, rotational, and magnetic effects in normal OB and related peculiar spectra. Stellar content, multiple generations, and interstellar absorption lines in giant H II regions and massive young clusters. | None |
| Rick White | AURA Astronomer, Archive Branch Lead (ODM) | Extragalactic & Galactic radio surveys (the FIRST survey); quasars; gravitational lensing by clusters of galaxies; image processing and other data analysis techniques; image compression; classification and data mining. | None |
| Brad Whitmore | AURA Astronomer (HSTMO) |
Formation and destruction of young star clusters. Extragalactic globular cluster systems. Merging galaxies. Polar-ring galaxies. Structure and dynamics of galaxies. Clusters of galaxies. | None |
| Robert Williams | AURA Distinguished Research Scholar (SMO) | High resolution spectroscopy; emission-line objects; element abundances; novae; accretion disks. | Website |
| Aida Wofford | Postdoc |
OB stars, Starbursts, H II regions | Website |