People Directory
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1997
Andrew Gould
Distinguished Professor of Mathematical & Physical Sciences and Astronomy
University Distinguished Scholar
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1988.
- email: gould@astronomy.ohio-state.edu
- Office: 4039 McPherson
- Phone: (614) 292-1892
- Research: Microlensing; Identifying & measuring dark matter; extrasolar planets.
Klaus Honscheid
Professor of Physics
Christopher Kochanek
Professor of Astronomy
Ohio Eminent Scholar in Observational Cosmology
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1989.
Distinguished Professor of Mathematical & Physical Sciences and Astronomy/ Physics
CCAPP Chair
Pd.D., New York University, 1968
- email: steigman@mps.ohio-state.edu
- Office: M2006 PRB
- Phone: (614) 292-1999
- Research: Cosmology and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Professor of Astronomy
University Distinguished Scholar
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1989.
Darren DePoy
Professor of Astronomy
Ph.D., University of Hawaii, 1987.
- email: depoy@astronomy.ohio-state.edu
- Office: 4059 McPherson Lab
- Phone: (614) 292-7891
- Research: Infrared spectroscopy, Instrumentation, searches for extrasolor planets
Richard Hughes
Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Professor of Physics
- email: hughes@mps.ohio-state.edu
- Office: 1040L/3046 PRB
- Phone (O): (614) 292-3885
- Lab: 3114/3115 PRB
- website: http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~hughes/hughes.html
- Research: Studying proton-antiproton collision at the world's highest energy collider, the Fermilab Tevatron.
Jennifer Johnson
Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Ph.D., University of California, San Cruz, 1999.
Richard Kass
Professor of Physics
- email: kass@mps.ohio-state.edu
- Office: 3146 PRB
- Phone: (614) 292-6958
- Lab: 3130/3153 PRB
- website: http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kass
- Research: Heavy quark physics and electron-position interactions
Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2000.
Smita Mathur
Associate Professor of Astronomy
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, 1991.
Patrick Osmer
Distinguished Professor of Mathematical & Physical Sciences and Astronomy
Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1970.
- email: posmer@astronomy.ohio-state.edu
- Office: 4055 McPherson Lab
- Phone: (614) 292-1773
- Office: 250 University Hall
- Phone: (614) 247-7413
- website: http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~posmer
- Research: Quasar evolution & spectroscopy
Bradley Peterson
Professor of Astronomy
Department Chair
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1978.
- email: peterson@astronomy.ohio-state.edu
- Office: 4055B McPherson Lab
- Phone: (614) 292-2022
- website: http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~peterson
- Research: Active Galaxies, Supermassive Black Holes, QSO absorbtion lines, Instrumentation, Extrasolar Planets
Marc Pinsonneault
Professor of Astronomy
Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Yale University, 1988.
Richard Pogge
Professor of Astronomy
Vice chair for Instrumentation
Ph.D., University of California, San Cruz, 1988.
- email: pogge@astronomy.ohio-state.edu
- Office: 4037 McPherson Lab
- Phone: (614) 292-0274
- website: http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge
- Research: Active Galaxies, Supermassive Black Holes, Instrumentation, Extrasolar Planets
Barbara Ryden
Associate Professor of Astronomy
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1987.
Kris Stanek
Associate Professor of Astronomy
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1996.
Todd A. Thompson
Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 2002.
- email: thompson@astronomy.ohio-state.edu
- Office: 4019 McPherson Lab
- Phone: (614) 292-7971
- website: http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~thompson
- Research: Theoretical Astrophysics, Starburst Galaxies, AGN Fueling, Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts
Terry Walker
Professor of Astronomy and Physics
Director of CCAPP
Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Indiana University, 1987.
Brian Winer
Professor of Physics
- email: winer@mps.ohio-state.edu
- Office: 3042 PRB
- Phone (O): (614) 292-8996
- Lab: 3114/3115/3163 PRB
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- website: http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~winer
- Research: Experimental Astroparticle Particle Physics (GLAST)
Mandeep Gill
Postdoctoral Researcher
- email: msgill@mps.ohio-state.edu
- Office: M2007 PRB
- Phone: (614) 688-3294
Stelios Kazantzidis
Postdoctoral Researcher
- email: stelios@mps.ohio-state.edu
- Office: M2018 PRB
- Phone: (614) 247-1501
- Ph.D., University of Zurich, 2005
- http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~stelios
- Research: Theoretical/Computational Astrophysics & Cosmology, Galaxy Formation & Evolution, Galactic Structure, The Nature of Dark Matter, Structure & Substructure of Dark Matter Halos, Supermassive Black Holes
Kyler Kuehn
Postdoctoral Researcher
Postdoctoral Researcher
- email: erozo@mps.ohio-state.edu
- Office: M2016 PRB
- Phone: (614) 292-3426
Hasan Yuksel
Postdoctoral Researcher
Matthew Kistler
Graduate Research Assistant
- email: kistler@mps.ohio-state.edu
- Office: M2000 PRB
- Phone: (614) 292-2086
- Major: Physics
Frederick Kuehn
Graduate Research Assistant
- email: kuehn@mps.ohio-state.edu
- Office: 3114 PRB
- Phone: (614) 292-7370
- Major:Physics
Graduate Research Assistant
- email: gdmack@mps.ohio-state.edu
- Office: M2000 PRB
- Phone: (614) 292-2086
- Major: Physics
Chris Orban
Graduate Research Assistant
Molly Peeples
Graduate Student
Aaron Sander
Graduate Research Assistant
- email: sander@mps.ohio-state.edu
- Office: 3114 PRB
- Phone: (614) 292-7370
- Major: Physics
Patrick Smith
Graduate Research Assistant
- email: pdsmith@mps.ohio-state.edu
- Office: 3114 PRB
- Phone: (614) 292-7370
- Major: Physics
Cayman Unterborn
Undergraduate Research Assistant
- email: unterborn.1@osu.edu
- Office: 4055 McPherson
- Major: Astronomy
Christopher Williams
Undergraduate Research Assistant
- email: williams.2560@osu.edu
- Office: 3061 PRB
- Phone: (614) 292-1129
- Major: Physics
Shunsaku Horiuchi
Visiting Scholar
Joanne Cohn
Research Scientist at UC Berkeley
Martin White
Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UC Berkeley
Yavonne McGarry
CCAPP Program Coordinator and Webmaster
- email: mcgarry@mps.ohio-state.edu
- Office: M2023 PRB
- Phone: (614) 292-0792
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