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Scientific Staff and Research Interests

Wendy Freedman, Director

B.Sc., 1979, M.Sc., 1980, Ph.D. (astronomy), 1984, University of Toronto

Cosmology, galactic and stellar evolution
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Andrew Benson, George Ellery Hale Distinguished Scholar in Theoretical Astrophysics

MPhys (physics and astrophysics), 1997, University of Leicester; PhD, 2000, University of Durham

The formation of cosmic structure, from dark matter to galaxies and AGN.
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Jeffrey Crane, Staff Associate

B.S. (physics), 1997, Arizona State University; M.A. (astronomy), 1999, Ph.D. (astronomy), 2004, University of Virginia

Instrumentation, Milky Way, Local Group, Extrasolar Planets
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Alan Dressler, Staff Member

B.A. (physics), 1970, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. (astronomy), 1976, University of California, Santa Cruz

Galaxy evolution, IMACS spectrograph
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Luis C. Ho, Staff Member

B.A. (astronomy and physics), 1990, Harvard University; M.A., 1991, Ph.D (astronomy), 1995, University of California, Berkeley

Probing the mysteries of black holes
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Daniel D. Kelson, Staff Associate

B.S. (astronomy and physics), 1991, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ph.D (astronomy), 1998, University of California, Santa Cruz

How the earliest galaxies evolved
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Juna A. Kollmeier, Staff Member

B.S. (physics), 2000, California Institute of Technology; Ph.D (astronomy), 2006, The Ohio State University

Theoretical astrophysics concerning the growth of cosmic structure on all scales
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Barry F. Madore, Senior Research Associate

B.S. (astronomy and physics) 1969, University of Southern California; M.Sc. (astronomy), 1971, Ph.D. (astronomy), 1974, University of Toronto

The complexities of deciphering galaxy evolution
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Patrick McCarthy, Staff Member

B.S. physics and astronomy 1983, University of Arizona; Ph.D. astronomy, 1988, University of California, Berkeley

Probing the era of galaxy formation
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Andrew McWilliam, Staff Member

B.Sc., 1981, London University; M.A., 1984, Ph.D., 1988, University of Texas - Austin

Chemical evolution and nucleosynthesis
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John Mulchaey, Staff Member

Ph.D., 1994, University of Maryland

Galaxy groups, X-ray astronomy
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Augustus Oemler, Director Emeritus

A.B., 1969, Princeton University; M.S. and Ph.D., 1974, California Institute of Technology

Data reduction, evolution of galaxies in clusters
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Eric Persson, Staff Member

B.Sc. (physics), 1966, McGill University; Ph.D. (astronomy), 1972, California Institute of Technology

Exploring the universe with infrared detectors
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Mark M. Phillips, Associate Director for Magellan; Associate Director, Las Campanas Observatory

A.B., 1974 San Diego State University; Ph.D. (Astronomy), 1977, University of California, Santa Cruz

Supernovae, expansion of the universe
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George W. Preston, Director Emeritus

B.S. (physics), 1952, Yale University; Ph.D. (astronomy), 1959, University of California, Berkeley

Understanding stellar evolution
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Michael Rauch, Staff Member

Diploma (physics), 1988, Gutenberg University, Mainz; Ph.D. (astronomy), 1992, Cambridge University

Unraveling the cosmic web
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Miguel R. Roth, Director, Las Campanas Observatory

B.S. (physics), 1971; Ph.D. (solid-state physics), 1976, University of Chile

Star formation, supernovae, instrumentation
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François Schweizer, Staff Member

Lizentiat (astronomy), 1968, University of Bern; M.A., 1970, Ph.D. (astronomy), 1975, University of California, Berkeley

How galaxies assemble and evolve
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Stephen A. Shectman, Staff Member

B.S. (physics), 1969, Yale University; Ph.D. (astronomy), 1973, California Institute of Technology

Galaxies, low-metal stars, and astronomical tools
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Josh Simon, Staff Member

B.S. (physics), 1998, Stanford University; M.A. (astrophysics), 2000, Ph.D. (astrophysics), 2005, University of California, Berkeley

Dark Matter, chemical evolution, supernovae, and nearby galaxies
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Ian Thompson, Staff Member

B.Sc. (physics and astronomy), 1971, M.Sc. (physics and astronomy), 1974, University of British Columbia; Ph.D. (physics and astronomy), 1980, University of Western Ontario

Globular clusters, instrumentation
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Christopher Burns, Research Associate

BSc. Physics, Bishop's University (1994);  MSc. Physics, (1995), PhD Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto (2002)

Cosmology, Distance scale, Supernovae, Numerical analysis, Bayesian Statistics
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Mark Seibert, Senior Research Analyst

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Edward Villanueva, Data Analyst and Programmer

Joshua Adams, Postdoctoral Research Associate
galaxy structure, formation, and evolution
Guillermo Blanc, Carnegie Fellow
Michele Fumagalli, Hubble-Carnegie-Princeton Fellow
Galaxy formation, absorption line systems, physics of the interstellar medium, stellar initial mass function, blazar redshifts
Nimish Hathi, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Eric Hsiao, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Mansi Kasliwal, Hubble-Carnegie-Princeton Fellow
Minjin Kim, KASI Fellow
Andy Monson, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Eric Murphy, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ryan Quadri, Hubble Fellow
Jeffrey Rich, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ian Roederer, Carnegie Fellow
Victoria Scowcroft, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Yue Shen, Hubble Fellow
quasars and massive black holes
Rik Williams, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Richard Cool, Carnegie Fellow
T.J. Cox, Carnegie Fellow
Janice Lee, Hubble Fellow
Ivelina Momcheva, Postdoctoral Research Associate
José Prieto, Carnegie-Princeton Fellow
Iván Ramírez, Sagan Fellow