KNAC Faculty & Staff

...including terminal degree, title, and research specialties.

Colgate University
Thomas Balonek	UMass	Professor of Physics & Astronomy	Variable stars, quasar variability, asteroids
Jeffrey Bary	Vanderbilt	Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy	Pre-main sequence stars
Jonathan Levine	Berkeley	Associate Professor of Physics	planetary science, meteorites, and instrument development
Haverford College
Kate Daniel	Johns Hopkins	Assistant Professor of Physics at Bryn Mawr	Galaxy evolution and dynamics
Steve Goldman	Keele	Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy	Evolved stars, circumstellar dust, stellar mass loss, late stellar evolution
Dan Grin	Caltech	Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy	Particle cosmology, with a view toward galaxy surveys and CMB experiment
Wynn Ho	Cornell	Research Associate	Neutron star physics, gravitational waves, stellar atmosphere modeling, X-ray binaries
Islam Khan	Washington State	Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy	Early universe cosmology, inflation, reheating, stellar spectroscopy and populations
Karen Masters	Cornell	Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy	Extragalactic astronomy, galaxy surveys, galaxy morphology, HI in galaxies, citizen science
Andrea Lommen	Berkeley	Professor of Physics and Astronomy	Pulsars, gravitational waves
Bruce Partridge	Oxford	Professor Emeritus of Astronomy	Cosmology, the microwave background, and radio studies of galaxies
Paul Thorman	New Mexico	Physics Laboratory Instructor	Milky Way structure, nearby stars, and data mining large optical/IR surveys
Middlebury College
Eilat Glikman	Columbia	Associate Professor of Physics	Quasars and AGN
Stephen Ratcliff	Princeton	Professor Emeritus of Physics	Variable stars, stellar spectroscopy, instrumentation
Frank Winkler	Harvard	Professor Emeritus of Physics	Supernova remnants and the interstellar medium
Richard Wolfson	Dartmouth	Professor Emeritus of Physics	The solar corona and coronal mass ejections
Swarthmore College
David Cohen	Wisconsin	Professor of Astronomy, Department Chair	Modeling and X-ray observations of winds from massive stars, exoplanets
Eric Jensen	Wisconsin	Professor of Astronomy	Formation of planets, young stars in binary systems, exoplanets
Mary Ann Klassen	Wyoming	Senior Laboratory Lecturer in Physics and Astronomy
Natalia Lewandowska	Wurzburg	Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics	Multiwavelength studies of pulsars
Jesse Rivera	Rutgers	Visiting Assistant Professor of Astronomy	Radio astronomy, dusty star forming galaxies
Tristan Smith	Caltech	Associate Professor of Physics	Early universe cosmology, neutrinos, CMB
Vassar College
Ed Buie II	Arizona State	Assistant Professor of Astronomy	Circumgalactic medium
Fred Chromey	Harvard	Professor Emeritus of Astronomy	Structure and history of nearby galaxies
Debra Elmegreen	Harvard	Maria Mitchell Professor Emerita of Astronomy	Star formation, structure of spiral and interacting galaxies
Colette Salyk	Caltech	Assistant Professor of Astronomy	Planet formation
Jacqueline Villadsen	Caltech	Visiting Assistant Professor of Astronomy	Radio emission from stellar flares and atmospheres, radio astronomy
Wellesley College
James Battat	Harvard	Associate Professor of Physics	fundamental physics through astrophysics, dark matter detection
Richard French	Cornell	Professor Emeritus of Astronomy	Planetary astronomy (in particular Saturn)
Jonathan Kemp	Columbia	Physics and Astronomy Instrument Technician	Cataclysmic variable stars, amateur-professional collaboration, time domain astronomy, small telescope science
Kim McLeod	Arizona	Professor of Astronomy & Observatory Director	Observational extrasolar planet searches
Hora Mishra	Oklahoma	Visiting Lecturer	active galactic nuclei, blazars, galaxy clusters, large-scale structure
Wesley Watters	MIT	Associate Professor of Astronomy & Department Chair	Mars surface processes, impact cratering, planetary geodynamics
Wesleyan University
Bill Herbst	Toronto	John Monroe Van Vleck Professor Emeritus of Astronomy	Sellar formation, photometry, rotation, accretion disks
Meredith Hughes	Harvard	Associate Professor of Astronomy	Radio astronomy and planet formation
Roy Kilgard	Leicester	Associate Professor of the Practice in Astronomy	X-ray source populations in galaxies, statistical challenges in X-ray astronomy
Ed Moran	Columbia	Professor of Astronomy, Department Chair	X-ray Astronomy, X-ray background radiation
Seth Redfield	Colorado	Associate Professor of Astronomy	UV and optical spectroscopy, local ISM, exoplanets
Sarah Wellons	Harvard	Assistant Professor of Astronomy	Galaxy formation and evolution, cosmological simulations
Williams College
Marek Demianski	Warsaw	Visiting Professor of Astronomy	Cosmology and relativistic astrophysics
Kevin Flaherty	Arizona	Lecturer and Observatory Supervisor	Star and planet formation
Anne Jaskot	Michigan	Assistant Professor of Astronomy	Extragalactic astronomy, starburst galaxies, the ISM, and reionization
Karen Kwitter	UCLA	Ebenezer Fitch Professor Emerita of Astronomy	Planetary nebulae, interstellar medium, spectroscopy, evolution of intermediate-mass stars
Jay Pasachoff	Harvard	Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy, Observatory Director, Department Chair	Solar corona as studied at total eclipses, solar chromosphere, interstellar deuterium and its implications for cosmology, occultations by Pluto and other outer solar-system objects
Steven Souza	Stony Brook	Senior Lecturer Emeritus and Observatory Supervisor Emeritus	Early-type emission line stars, cold interstellar clouds, stellar occultations
Jen Winters	Georgia State	Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics	M dwarf binary star studies, planets around M dwarfs, Solar Neighborhood studies

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KNAC Faculty & Staff

Colgate University

Haverford College

Middlebury College

Swarthmore College

Vassar College

Wellesley College

Wesleyan University

Williams College