Beus Center Affiliates

Faculty

	Sanch Borthakur Associate Professor Borthakur is an observational astronomer specializing in extragalactic astronomy. Her research focuses on understanding how galaxies exchange matter and energy from their surroundings and grow via such processes.
	Judd Bowman Professor and Beus Chair of Cosmology Director Bowman is an astrophysicist. His research focuses on the formation of structure in the early universe. He also develops astronomical instrumentation and investigates the use of technology in informal science learning.
	Nathaniel Butler Professor Butler is an astrophysicist interested in the properties and evolution of the early universe.
	Simon Foreman Assistant Professor Foreman is a theoretical and observational physicist interested in large scale structure and the cosmological Dark Ages.
	Christopher Groppi Professor Groppi is an experimental astrophysicist interested in the process of star and planet formation and the interstellar medium.
	Timothy Heckman Professor Heckman's research has focused on observations of the evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes.
	Daniel Jacobs Professor Jacobs is an interdisciplinary scientist with expertise in low frequency radio cosmology and development of novel instruments.
	Tracee Jamison-Hooks Associate Professor Jamison-Hooks' current research interests include digital signal processing, Earth remote sensing, small satellite instrumentation and photonics.
	Philip Mauskopf Professor Mauskopf works on designing and building instruments primarily for astronomy and cosmology using superconducting detectors and devices.
	Allison Noble Assistant Professor Beus Professor of Galaxy Evolution Noble is an observational astronomer specializing in galaxy evolution and formation. Her research focuses on the interplay of stars, gas, and dust in galaxies when the Universe was 4 billion years old.
	Evan Scannapieco Professor Scannapieco is an astrophysicist whose research is focused on achieving a better understanding of the feedback processes in galaxy formation and the evolution of the elements across cosmic time.
	Molly Simon Assistant Professor Simon is a planetary scientist and astronomy education researcher whose current research focuses on utilizing citizen science to bring authentic research experiences to undergraduate courses (both in person and online).
	Sumner Starrfield Regents' Professor Starrfield is a computational astrophysicist and an ASU Regents Professor of astrophysics who studies stellar explosions using a Lagrangian, hydrodynamic, fully implicit, stellar evolution computer code.
	Francis Timmes Professor Timmes is an astrophysicist in interested in stars, chemical evolution, astrobiology, gamma-ray astronomy and community-driven software instruments.
	Patrick Young Professor Young is an astrophysicist and astrobiologist who simulates stellar evolution, supernovae, and the synthesis of elements. They also study planetary habitability and target selection for future life-detection missions.
	Alexander Van Engelen Assistant Professor van Engelen uses observational and theoretical techniques to gain an understanding of structure formation in the universe.
	Rogier Windhorst Regents' Professor Windhorst's research is in astronomy, cosmology, galaxy formation and evolution, the cosmic dark ages and the epoch of First Light, and astronomical instrumentation.