Astronomy Faculty


Marcel Agüeros

Assistant Professor, Astronomy
age-rotation-activity relation in solar-type stars, time-domain astronomy, low-mass white dwarfs, isolated neutron stars

Pupin 1327

Website

212.854.6814

Michael Allison

Adjunct Professor, Astronomy
planetary fluid dynamics, spaceflight mission planning, planetary atmospheres

Armstrong 656

Website

212.854.5554

James Applegate

Professor, Astronomy
stellar physics; cosmology; computational astrophysics

Pupin 1322

Website

212.854.6834

Greg Bryan

Associate Professor, Astronomy
cosmology, galaxy formation, numerical hydrodynamics, lyman-al pha forest, large-scale structure

Pupin 1325

Website

Arlin Crotts

Professor, Astronomy
observational cosmology, dark matter, supernovae, astronomical instrumentation, lunar science

Pupin 1012

Website

212.854.7899

Zoltan Haiman

Professor, Astronomy
cosmology, galaxy formation, intergalactic medium, weak gravitational lensing

Pupin 1326

Website

212.854.6822

Jules Halpern

Professor, Astronomy
pulsars, neutron stars; gamma-ray bursts; active galactic nuclei

Pupin 1014

Website

212.854.2554

David Helfand

Professor, Astronomy
neutron stars, X-ray background, radio surveys

Pupin 1020

Website

212.854.2150

Kathryn Johnston

Associate Professor, Astronomy
dynamics; galaxy interactions, formation and evolution; the Milky Way and Local Group

Pupin 1320

Website

212.854.3884

Kristen Menou

Associate Professor, Astronomy
accretion disks, extrasolar planets, astrophysical fluid dynamics

Pupin 1331

Website

212.854.6899

Jeremiah Ostriker

Professor, Astronomy
Cosmology, galaxy formation, AGN/quasars and black holes

Pupin 1020

Website

212.854.2150

Frederik Paerels

Professor, Astronomy
X-ray spectroscopy, intergalactic medium, X-ray instrumentation

Pupin 1022

Website

212.854.0181

Joseph Patterson

Professor, Astronomy
cataclysmic/X-ray binaries, late stellar evolution

Pupin 1316

Website

212.854.3276

Mary Putman

Associate Professor, Astronomy
galaxy formation and evolution, intergalactic medium, halo gas, star formation, Local Group

Pupin 1318

Website

212.854.6831

David Schiminovich

Associate Professor, Astronomy
galaxy formation and evolution, intergalactic and interstellar medium, astronomical instrumentation

Pupin 1324

Website

212.854.7819

Edward Spiegel

Professor, Astronomy
astrophysical fluid dynamics, photofluiddynamics

Pupin 1329

Website

212.854.6810

Jacqueline van Gorkom

Professor, Astronomy
galactic structure and evolution, galaxy clusters

Pupin 1314

Website

212.854.6850




Other Astro Faculty


Elena Aprile

Professor, Physics
experimental high energy astrophysics, cosmology and astroparticle physics

Pupin 1016

Website

212.854.3258

Andrei Beloborodov

Professor, Physics
theoretical astrophysics, compact objects and high-energy phenomena

Pupin 1013

212.854.6892

Charles Hailey

Professor, Physics
experimental high energy astrophysics and particle astrophysics/cosmology

Pupin 1018/Nevis

212.854.4238

Lam Hui

Professor, Astronomy Physics
theoretical astrophysics, high energy physics, large scale structure and cosmology

Pupin 1026

Website

212.854.7241

Laura Kay

Professor, Barnard
Chair, Physics, Barnard
Active Galactic Nuclei, spectropolarimetry, polarimetric instrumentation

Altschul 503

Website

212.854.7303

Janna Levin

Associate Professor, Barnard
cosmology, chaos, and black holes

Pupin 901 / Altschul

212.854.2263

Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Adjunct Professor, Astronomy AMNH
formation of stars and galaxies, structure and dynamics of the interstellar medium

Pupin 1407 / A.M.N.H

Website

212.496.3443

Szabolcs Marka

Associate Professor, Astronomy Physics
experimental gravitational wave detection; LIGO scientific collaboration

Pupin 1009

Website

212.854.8209

Amber Miller

Associate Professor, Astronomy Physics
experimental cosmology (Cosmic Microwave Background)

Pupin 1024

Website

212.854.4987

Reshmi Mukherjee

Professor, Physics Barnard
active galactic nuclei, unidentified gamma-ray sources, extragalactic gamma-ray background

Pupin 1010 / Altschu

Website

212.854.5101

Ben Oppenheimer

Adjunct Professor, Astronomy AMNH
extrasolar planets, infrared and adaptive optics instrumentation, white dwarfs

A.M.N.H.

Website

212.313.7921

Malvin Ruderman

Professor, Physics
compact objects, especially neutron stars

Pupin 922

212.854.3317

Michael Shara

Adjunct Professor, AMNH
origins and evolution of strongly interacting binary stars; explosions and shells of novae; the most massive and luminous stars; simulations of stellar collisions and mergers

A.M.N.H.

212.769.5488