Faculty

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	George Becker Office: Pierce Hall 2134B Telephone: Email: george.becker-at-ucr.edu Research Interests: intergalactic medium, reionization, first stars and galaxies, chemical enrichment, dark matter, quasar absorption lines, spectroscopy.
	Simeon Bird Office: Physics Telephone: Email: sbird-at-ucr.edu Research Interests: simulation-based cosmology, galaxy formation, data science, measurements of the properties of dark matter and large scale structure using quasar absorption, simulations of gas around galaxies.
	Gabriela Canalizo Office: Pierce 2100B Telephone: 951-827-5310 Email: gabriela.canalizo-at-ucr.edu Research Interests: observational extragalactic astrophysics, active galactic nuclei, quasar host galaxies and their environments, ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs), galaxy interactions and mergers, modeling stellar populations,old galaxies at high redshift, adaptive optics.
	Anson D’Aloisio Office: Telephone: Email: ansond-at-ucr.edu Research Interests: theoretical astrophysics and cosmology: cosmological structure formation, reionization, quasar absorption spectra, gravitational lensing, and primordial non-Gaussianity.
	Frederick Hamann Office: Pierce 2134B & 3013 Physics  Telephone: Email: frederick.hamann-at-ucr.edu Research Interests: astrophysics, quasars and active galaxies, super-massive black holes in galactic nuclei, the formation and evolution of galaxies, accretion and outflow processes in stars and galactic black hole environments, the high redshift universe, galactic chemical enrichment, early and late stages of stellar evolution, spectroscopy with astrophysical applications.
	Stephen Kane Cooperating-faculty member of the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Office: Pierce 2360 Telephone: 951-827-6593 Email: skane-at-ucr.edu Research Interests: detection, characterization, and habitability of exoplanets using ground and space-based telescope facilities.
	Bahram Mobasher Office: Pierce 2100A Telephone: 951-827-7190 Email: mobasher-at-ucr.edu Research Interests: observational astronomy, high-redshift galaxies, big data.
	Naveen Reddy Office: Pierce 2134B Telephone: 951-827-3492 Email: naveen.reddy-at-ucr.edu Research Interests: galaxy formation and evolution, multi-wavelength star formation indicators, stellar populations and dust properties of high redshift galaxies, and the connection between galaxies and the inter-galactic medium.
	Laura Sales Office: Pierce 2112B Telephone: Email: laura.sales-at-ucr.edu Research Interests: galaxy formation and evolution, numerical simulations and computational astrophysics, galaxy structure, dwarf galaxies, local Group cosmology, ISM physics, early Universe.
	Brian Siana Office: Pierce 2144A Telephone: 951-827-5117 Email: brian.siana-at-ucr.edu Research Interests: high redshift star formation, feedback and metal enrichment in low-mass galaxies in the early universe, the reionization of hydrogen and helium in the intergalactic medium.
	Gillian Wilson Office: Pierce 2112A Telephone: 951-827-6274 Email: gillian.wilson-at-ucr.edu Research Interests: galaxy clusters and mapping dark matter, observational cosmology, dark energy, 1<z<2 clusters of galaxies, galaxy evolution, structure formation, extremely red objects, weak gravitational lensing, Spitzer space telescope infrared studies.