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Staff By Title
Administrative
Gwendolyn King
Administrative Assistant,
Astrophysics
212-313-7441
gking at amnh.org
Elizabeth Stachow
Executive Assistant to the Director,
Hayden Planetarium
212-769-5913
stachow at amnh.org
Curators
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Curator and Professor Curator-in-Charge Chair, Division of Physical Sciences & Adjunct Professor, Columbia University 212-496-3443 mordecai at amnh.org |
Formation of planets, stars, and galaxies. Structure and dynamics of the interstellar medium and star forming clouds. Turbulence. Planetary impacts. Numerical gas dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics. |
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Associate Curator and Professor & Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University 212-313-7921 bro at amnh.org |
Direct imaging, spectroscopy and atmospheres of extrasolar planets, brown dwarfs and circumstellar disks; extremely cool Galactic halo white dwarfs; infrared and adaptive optics instrumentation; coronagraphy and novel imaging techniques |
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Michael Shara Curator and Professor & Adjunct Professor, Columbia University 212-769-5488 mshara at amnh.org |
Origins and evolution of strongly interacting binary stars; explosions and shells of novae; Cataclysmic variables in nearby galaxies and in globular clusters; the most massive and luminous stars; simulations of stellar collisions and mergers; simulating the long-term evolution of globular clusters |
Research Scientists
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Douglas Brenner Research Scientist 212-313-7633 dbrenner at amnh.org |
Imaging exoplanet and circumstellar disk searches, coronagraphy |
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Research Scientist 212-313-3444 orsola at amnh.org |
Binary interaction and evolved stars. Asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, post-AGB, white dwarfs and planetary nebulae. Stellar structure and evolution. Detection of binarity and hydrodynamic simulations of binary interactions. Population synthesis. Stellar disks and winds |
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Research Scientist 212-496-3312 lepine at amnh.org |
High proper motion stars; low-mass stars and brown dwarfs; the solar neighborhood; structure and dynamics of hot stellar winds; Wolf-Rayet stars; analysis of large astronomical datasets |
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Jason Maron Research Scientist 212-496-3442 jmaron at amnh.org |
Astrophysical magnetohydrodynamic turbulence; dynamos; numerical methods |
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Anand Sivaramakrishnan Chief Instrumentation Scientist 212-313-7653 asiva at amnh.org |
Adaptive optics, coronagraphy, near-infrared and optical astronomical instrumentation. Wavefront sensing and correction, detector simulations, astrometry, analytical and numerical methods |
Data Collections
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David Zurek Data Collections Manager 212-313-7318 dzurek at amnh.org |
Photometric studies of stellar populations; variable stars; cataclysmic binaries; nova shells |
Graduate Students
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Graduate Student, SUNY Stony Brook 212-313-7537 jfaherty at amnh.org |
Infrared Astrometry; Proper Motion survey for nearby brown brown dwarfs in the galactic plane, Parallax Survey of brown dwarfs within 30 parsecs showing spectral features of youth |
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Graduate Student, Columbia University 212-313-7631 shinkley at amnh.org |
High contrast imaging, Adaptive optics, extrasolar planets |
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Colin McNally Graduate Student, Columbia University cmcnally at amnh.org |
Protoplanetary disks, circumgalactic medium; magnetohydrodynamics, turbulence, numerical methods |
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Chao-Chin Yang Graduate Student, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 212-496-3598 cyang at amnh.org |
Computational astrophysics; planet formation and migration; structure and dynamics of disk galaxies |
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Neil Zimmerman Graduate Student, Columbia University 212-313-3310 nzimmerman at amnh.org |
Optical techniques for studies of exoplanets and circumstellar disks; high contrast imaging surveys of nearby stars |
Research Associates
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Manager, Digital Universe Hayden Planetarium 212-496-3578 abbott at amnh.org |
Development and distribution of the Digital Universe Atlas; astrophysics education and public outreach; science visualization |
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K. E. Saavik Ford Research Associate & Assistant Professor of Astronomy, BMCC—CUNY 212-496-3579 sford at amnh.org |
IR & radio observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Modeling of the AGN phenomenon |
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Research Associate, & Astrophysicist Emeritus, NASA/Goddard 202-413-2650 daniel.y.gezari at nasa.gov |
Infrared observational astrophysics; mid-infrared array development applied to imaging of the Galactic Center and star formation regions; exoplanet detection techniques; experimental tests of special relativity; Catalog of Infrared Observations |
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Research Associate & Associate Professor of Astrophysics, College of Staten Island—CUNY 212-496-3579 cliu at amnh.org |
Star formation history of the universe; merging and interacting galaxies; starburst and post-starburst activity; field galaxy luminosity functions and evolution; quasar absorption line systems |
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Barry McKernan Research Associate & Assistant Professor of Astronomy, BMCC—CUNY 212-496-3579 bmckernan at amnh.org |
Active Galactic Nuclei; Accretion onto Supermassive black holes; Multi-wavelength studies; X-ray Astrophysics; Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion disks; Hot Intergalactic medium. Hot Galactic halo |
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Research Associate & Associate Professor of Astronomy, York College—CUNY 212-496-3579 paglione at york.cuny.edu |
Interstellar medium of starburst galaxies; starburst evolution; diffuse gamma-ray emission from normal galaxies; the Galactic center molecular zone; radio galaxy clustering and evolution |
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Rémi Soummer Research Associate & Assistant Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute 212-313-7638 rsoummer at amnh.org |
High-contrast direct imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanets, brown dwarfs and circumstellar disks. Theoretical studies and development of novel imaging techniques including coronagraphy and extreme adaptive optics. |
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Research Associate 212-769-5230 soter at amnh.org |
Solar system studies; orbital evolution; tectonics and earthquakes; geoarchaeology |
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Jayashree Toraskar Research Associate 212-313-7918 toraskar at amnh.org |
Performing gas dynamical and magnetohydrodynamic simulations of ionization in star forming regions |
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Research Associate & Astrophysicist & Frederick P. Rose Director, Hayden Planetarium 212-769-5912 tyson at amnh.org |
Extragalactic and intergalactic supernovae; dwarf galaxies; stellar populations; Galactic structure |
