Astronomy at UCR

Mariana Lazarova

with Prof. Gabriela Canalizo
Office: Pierce 2109
Telephone: 951-827-2384
Email: mariana.lazarova-at-ucr.edu

Research Interests: Extragalactic observational astronomy, Broad Absorption Line (BAL) QSOs, Quasar host galaxies, The role of mergers in AGN evolution, AGN fundamental parameters, AGN feedback, Outflows

Kyle D. Hiner

with Prof. Gabriela Canalizo
Office: Pierce 2101
Telephone: 951-827-2384
Email: kyle.hiner-at-email.ucr.edu

Research interests: Active galactic nuclei, Post-starburst galaxies, Quasar driven winds/outflows, M-sigma relation, Merging galaxies, AGN-starburst connection

Nathaniel R. Stickley

with Prof. Gabriela Canalizo
Office:  Pierce 2109
Telephone: 951-827-2384
E-mail: Click

Research interests:  Numerical Simulations, Computational Astrophysics, Galaxy Formation & Evolution, Gravitation, Field Theory, Physics Education, History of Science.

For my thesis research, I'm studying the evolution of stellar velocity dispersion, $\sigma_{*}$, during galaxy mergers while taking dust-extinction effects into account.  Toward this end, I'm using GADGET-2 to perform numerical simulations and Sunrise to create synthetic Doppler-broadened spectra and images of the simulated galaxy mergers.

Hooshang Nayyeri

with Prof. Bahram Mobasher
Office:  Pierce 2115
Telephone: 951-827-5420
E-mail: hooshang.nayyeri-at-student.ucr.edu

Research interests:  Galaxy Evolution, Massive evolved galaxies

Behnam Darvish

with Prof. Bahram Mobasher
Office:  Pierce 2121
Telephone: 951-827-5420
E-mail: bdarv001-at-ucr.edu

Research interests:  Formation and evolution of galaxies in dense environments (clusters, groups, filaments)

Alireza Farahmandi

with Prof. Gillian Wilson
Office:  Pierce 2109
Telephone: 951-827-2384
E-mail: alireza.farahmandi-at-email.ucr.edu

Research interests:

Shoubaneh Hemmati

with Prof. Bahram Mobasher
Office:  Pierce 2115
Telephone: 951-827-5420
E-mail: shemm001-at-ucr.edu

Research interests:  Depends on who is asking!

Laura Green

with Prof. Bahram Mobasher
Office:  Pierce 2115
Telephone: 951-827-5420
E-mail: lgree005-at-student.ucr.edu

Research interests:

Andrew DeGroot

with Prof. Gillian Wilson
Office:  Pierce 2213
Telephone: N/A
E-mail: adegr001-at-ucr.edu

Research interests: Galaxy clusters, Galaxy evolution, Cosmology, General relativity

Roozbeh Davari

with Prof. Gabriela Canalizo
Office: 
Telephone:
E-mail: roozbeh.davari-at-email.ucr.edu

Research interests:

Joe Cox

with Prof. Gillian Wilson
Office:  Off-campus
Telephone: 951-795-2589
E-mail: jcox002-at-ucr.edu

Research interests:  Astrophysics: Multiband Galactic Surveys, Luminosity Functions of Galaxies; Electrical Engineering (Photonics); Other: Spectropolarimetry, Fluorescence Ladar, Laser Radar Countermeasures, Space Based Radar, Automotive Based Sensing

Daniel Masters

with Prof. Bahram Mobasher
Office: 
Telephone:
E-mail: dmast001-at-student.ucr.edu

Research interests:

Anahita Alavi

with Prof. Brian Siana
Office:  Pierce 2145
Telephone: 951-827-5114
E-mail: anahita.alavi-at-ucr.edu

Research interests:  The reionization of Hydrogen in the Inter galactic medium, Lyman Break galaxies

Siyu Zhou

with Prof.
Office:  Pierce 2137
Telephone:
E-mail: siyu.zhou.ac-at-gmail.com

Research interests:

Bill Freeman

with Prof.
Office:  Physics 2124
Telephone:
E-mail: billfreeman44-at-yahoo.com

Research interests:  Dust formation around evolved stars, Star forming regions in galaxies, and Extinction properties of dust

Irene Shivaei

with Prof.
Office:  Physics 2124
Telephone:
E-mail: sshiv001-at-ucr.edu

Research interests:

Ryan Foltz

with Prof. Gillian Wilson
Office:  Physics 2132 (or 2124)
Telephone:
E-mail: rfolt001-at-ucr.edu

Research interests: Galaxy formation and clusters, Large scale structure