Science Staff and their Research Interests
| Name(and WEB Page) | email@ipac.caltech.edu | Project | Research Interests (click on link for more information) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel Akeson | rla | MSC | Star Formation |
| Babar Ali | babar | Herschel | Brown Dwarfs, Low-Mass Stars, Star Formation |
| Phil Appleton | apple | Spitzer | ISM in Galaxies: Interacting and Colliding galaxies: Nuclear Activity in galaxies: Evolution of Galaxies |
| David Ardila | ardila | Spitzer | Star and Planet Formation |
| Lee Armus | lee | Spitzer | Starburst Galaxies, AGN, Galaxy Evolution |
| Thomas Barlow | tab | GALEX | Quasars, AGNs |
| Chas Beichman | chas | MSC | Searching for planets and evidence for planets such as debris disks around nearby young stars, Understanding the formation and evolution of distant infrared-bright galaxies and their relationship to the Cosmic Infrared Background. |
| Bruce Berriman | gbb | IRSA | Polarization |
| Andy Boden | bode | MSC | Binary stars |
| Bidushi Bhattacharya | bhattach | Spitzer | Jovian magnetosphere |
| Sean Carey | carey | Spitzer | Dark clouds, ISM |
| Ranga-Ram Chary | rchary | Postdoc | Galaxy evolution, cosmic background |
| David Ciardi | ciardi | MSC | Molecular clouds, star formation, and young stellar objects to stellar astrophysics, brown dwarfs, and cataclysmic variables. |
| James Colbert | colbert | Spitzer | |
| Brendan Crill | bpc | Planck | |
| Roc Cutri | roc | 2MASS | QSOs and AGN, Luminous IR Galaxies, the Diffuse ISM, Carbon Stars, Low Mass Stars, Asteroids |
| Sergio Fajardo-Acosta | fajardo | Spitzer | Vega-type stars, Planet Formation |
| Dario Fadda | fadda | Spitzer | |
| Fan Fang | fan | Spitzer | Galaxy Evolution, Nonlinear Galaxy Clustering |
| David Frayer | frayer | Spitzer | High-Redshift Galaxies, ULIGs, Starbursts, AGN and BCDs |
| Chris Gelino | cgelino | Spitzer | Brown dwarfs, planet searches around nearby stars |
| Dawn Gelino | dawn | MSC | |
| Bill Glaccum | glaccum | Spitzer | evolved stars |
| Carl Grillmair | carl | Spitzer | Galactic Structure, Dynamics, & Evolution |
| George Helou | gxh | IPAC | Normal Galaxies, ISM |
| Eric Hivon | efh | Planck | Cosmology and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation |
| Donald Hoard | hoard | Spitzer | |
| Robert Hurt | hurt | 2MASS | Galaxies, Star Formation |
| Jim Ingalls | ingalls | Spitzer | Interstellar Medium, Structure and Chemistry |
| Tom Jarrett | jarrett | 2MASS | Galaxies, Large Scale Structure, Palomar Prime Focus IR Camera |
| Davy Kirkpatrick | davy | 2MASS | Brown dwarfs, Nearby Stars, Stellar/Substellar Spectral Classication |
| Chris Koresko | koresko | MSC | young stars |
| Mark Lacy | mlacy | Spitzer | galaxy evolution & quasars |
| Seppo Laine | seppo | Spitzer | galaxy dynamics and evolution |
| William B. Latter | latter | Spitzer | Stellar Evolution, ISM, Astrochemistry |
| Deborah Levine | deblev | Spitzer | Galactic Structure; Center, Lum. IR Galaxies |
| Carol Lonsdale | cjl | IPAC | Galaxy Evolution |
| Steve Lord | lord | Herschel | Nearby Galaxies, ISM |
| Patrick Lowrance | lowrance | Postdoc | Brown drawfs |
| Nanyao Lu | lu | ISO | ISM, Galaxies, Large Scale Structures |
| Barry Madore | barry | NED | Galaxies, Distance Scale |
| Bruce McCollum | mccollum | Spitzer | |
| Bill Mahoney | wam | Spitzer | X-ray binaries, galaxies |
| Valeri Makarov | vmakarov | MSC | High-precision astrometry |
| Vince Mannings | vgm | Spitzer | Circumstellar disks, planet formation |
| Francine Marleau | marleau | Spitzer | Extragalactic observational astrophysics, Galaxy formation and evolution, star formation history of galaxies, Resolved stellar populations and role of dust in elliptical galaxies, General relativity and structure formation |
| Joseph Mazzarella | mazz | NED | galaxies, tidal interactions and mergers, AGNs, science archive R&D |
| Vikki Meadows | vsm | Spitzer | Solar System, Characterization of Extrasolar Planets, Radiative Transfer |
| Rafael Millan-Gabet | rafael | MSC/Keck | optical interferometry, star and planet formation, instrumentation |
| Pat Morris | pmorris | Spitzer | Winds of Wolf-Rayet stars & Luminous Blue Variables; Planetary regoliths |
| Brant Nelson | nelson | 2MASS | AGN variability, Quasars/AGN |
| Alberto Noriega-Crespo | alberto | Spitzer | ISM, Outflows, Star Formation |
| Patrick Ogle | ogle | Spitzer | Active galaxies, quasars, black holes, and galaxy clusters |
| JoAnn O'Linger | joanno | Spitzer | Star Formation, Outflows, Circumstellar Disks |
| Deborah Padgett | dlp | Spitzer | Star Formation, Proto-Planetary Systems, YSO's |
| Solange Ramirez | solange | StARS | Stellar abundances, star formation |
| Bill Reach | reach | Spitzer | Cosmic background, ISM, Supernova Remnants, Comets, Zodiacal light |
| Luisa Rebull | rebull | Spitzer | star formation |
| Jeonghee Rho | rho | 2MASS | Supernova remnants, ISM, clusters of galaxies |
| Lee Rottler | rottler | Science | Binary stars and their interactions |
| Bernard Schulz | bschulz | Herschel | extragalactic, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRG), interstellar dust, infrared instrumentation |
| Kartik Sheth | kartik | Spitzer | |
| David Shupe | shupe | Spitzer | Extragalactic surveys, ISM, Space-Based instrumentation |
| Nancy Silbermann | nancys | Spitzer | Variable Stars |
| Tom Soifer | bts | Spitzer | ultraluminous galaxies |
| Gordon Squires | squires | Spitzer | gravitational lenses, glaxy clusters |
| John Stauffer | stauffer | Spitzer | Brown dwarfs,open clusters, star formation |
| Susan Stolovy | susan | Spitzer | galactic center |
| Lisa Storrie-Lombardi | lisa | Spitzer | Galaxy Formation and Evolution, High-Redshift Quasars and Absorption Line Systems |
| Jason Surace | jason | Spitzer | Interacting Galaxies, ULIRGs, QSOs/Hosts, Adaptive Optics |
| Harry Teplitz | hit | Spitzer | |
| Gerard Van Belle | gerard | MSC | near-infrared interferometry |
| Schuyler VanDyk | vandyk | 2MASS | Supernovae and their environments; Galaxies |
| Ann Wehrle | aew | MSC | Quasars, AGNs |
| Stefanie Wachter | wachter | Spitzer | Compact Objects, Interacting Binaries, X-ray Transients, Soft Gamma Repeaters, Accretion Disks, Star Formation |
| William Wheaton | waw | Spitzer | Gamma-ray astronomy & AGN |
| Gillian Wilson | gillian | Spitzer | Very high redshift clusters of galaxies, Mapping dark matter using gravitational lensing, and Galaxy evolution studies |
| Lin Yan | lyan | Spitzer | galaxy evolution, globular clusters |
| Kevin Xu | cxu | 2MASS | galaxy evolution |