Astronomy at UCR

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

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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. Naveen Reddy
Office:  Pierce 2137
Telephone:  951-827-5113
E-mail: sshiv001-at-ucr.edu

Research interests:  Star formation and dust properties of high redshift galaxies

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