Carnegie Mellon Astrophysics Group

Below are the people of the Carnegie Mellon Astrophysics Group and their respective research areas and contact information. Homepages, if available, can be found by clicking on their name in the navigational menu to the left. General questions can be directed either to webmaster or to the department; see the contact information at the bottom of the navigational menu.

Can't find who you are looking for? A list of people who have recently left the group and a list of current research undergraduates can be found near the bottom of this page. Our friends and collaborators at the University of Pittsburgh can be located via the link on the side bar. Members of the CMU astro statistics group (Moore, Wasserman, Genovese, Schneider, Connolly etc.) can be contacted via Bob Nichol.

Name	E-Mail	Phone	Position	Research
Marie Angela Benardi	N/A	N/A	Postdoc	Galaxy Evolution, SDSS
Shang-Shan Chong	chong2	N/A	Graduate Student	Data Mining, SDSS
Rupert Croft	rcroft	(412) 268-8917	Assistant Professor	Theoretical cosmology, structure formation
Tomo Goto	tomo	(412) 268-8953	Research Scholar (visiting graduate student from the University of Tokyo)	Data Mining, SDSS, Galaxy cluster finder and catalog.
Percy Gomez	pgomez	(412) 268-2538	Postdoc	Galaxy Evolution, Viper, ACBAR, CMB, SZ
Richard Griffiths	griffith	(412) 268-1886	Professor	AGN, X-Ray Background, Starburst, Galaxies, XMM, Chandra
Adam Knudson	knudson	N/A	Graduate Student	Strong Lensing, MDS
Jeff Maki	jmaki	N/A	Systems/Network Administrator	N/A
Chris Miller	chrism	(412) 268-8953	Postdoc	Cluster Alignments, Large Scale Structure, Galaxy Evolution, SDSS
Takamitsu Miyaji	miyaji	(412) 268-2748	Postdoc	X-Ray Background, XMM, Chandra, AGN
Bob Nichol	nichol	(412) 268-8068	Assistant Professor	Data Mining, SDSS, Galaxy Evolution, Cluster Evolution, Cosmological Paramaters, Astro-Statistics
Jeffrey Peterson	jbp	(412) 268-2785	Professor	Microwave instrumentation, CMB anisotropy observations, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
Ratnatunga Kavan	kavan	(412) 268-1888	Senior Research Scientist	MDS, Lensing
Kathy Romer	romer	(412) 268-8351	Assistant Professor	Viper, ACBAR, CMB, SZ, XCS, SHARC, XMM, Cluster Physics, Cluster Evolution, Cosmological Paramaters, Data Mining
Shane Zabel	zabel	N/A	Graduate Student	XMM Data Analysis, XCS

Undergraduate Research Students

Former Astrophysics Group Members