Astronomy Program
Department of Physics & Astronomy


Faculty

Ron Buta
buta(at)sarah.astr.ua.edu
observation, morphology, & dynamics of galaxies; galaxy catalogues
Gene Byrd
byrd(at)bama.ua.edu
N-body simulations of spiral structure & dynamics of interacting galaxies
Philip E. Hardee
phardee(at)bama.ua.edu
magnetohydrodynamics of collimated outflows, Plasma astrophysics, extragalactic astronomy
William C. Keel
keel(at)bildad.astr.ua.edu
observation of interacting & active galaxies, galaxy evolution
Jack W. Sulentic
giacomo(at)merlot.astr.ua.edu
the cosmological distance scale, interacting pairs & groups of galaxies, & AGN spectra
Raymond E. White III
rwhite(at)bama.ua.edu
evolution of intracluster gas, cooling accretion flows in galaxies & clusters of galaxies


Graduate Students

e-mail PhoneRoom entry
year
MS
Erin Darnell ekdarnell(at)bama.ua.edu348-508130806
Amy Dixon aldixon(at)bama.ua.edu348-508130807
Adriana Durbala durba001(at)bama.ua.edu348-304221802
Rebecca Grouchy grouc001(at)bama.ua.edu348-50813090005
Anna Manning ammanning(at)bama.ua.edu348-508130806
Alana May may007(at)bama.ua.edu 04
Branyon May may001(at)bama.ua.edu 0407
Aparajita Senguptaasengupta(at)bama.ua.edu348-508130806
Yuanyuan Su ysu(at)bama.ua.edu348-508130807
Patrick Treuthardttreut001(at)bama.ua.edu348-50813099800
Sebastian Zamfir zamfi001(at)bama.ua.edu348-304221802


Recent Graduates

MS PhDCurrent Position
Enrique Gomez 0306Assistant Professor, Western Carolina University
Matthew Wimmer 06
Jin He 0205
Sergei Vasylyev 05 Field Engineer, Shlumberger, Ltd.
Rumen Bachev 03 Research Associate, Institute of Astronomy, Bulgaria
Robert Mohr 9701Instructor, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Donovan Domingue9800Assistant Professor, Georgia College & State University
Wentao Wu 99Postdoc, Louisiana State University
Renato Dupke 99Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan
Susan Gessner Stewart 99Staff astronomer, US Naval Observatory
Audress Johnson 00 Lockheed Martin
Victor Andersen 98Adjunct professor, University of Houston
Guy Purcell 9498Commercial programming, Cendant
José María Castro Cerón 98 Royal Observatory of the Spanish Navy
Carlos Rabaca 9597University of Rio de Janeiro
Jim Scott 96
Lauren Jones 95 Assistant professor, Dennison University
Jack Gallimore 94 Assistant professor, Bucknell University
Fabio Bresolin 93 European Southern Observatory
Jordan Burkey 93 Abington Friends School, Connecticut
Michael Cooper 93
Duilia de Mello 93 Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden
Mario Klaric 92Faculty, Midlands Technical College, South Carolina


Former PostDocs

Current Position
Alex Rosen Staff, School of Math. Sciences, Dublin City University, Ireland
Paul EskridgeAsst. Prof., Minnesota State University, Mankato
David DavisGLAST Research Scientist at NASA/Goddard
Theo Koupelis Professor, University of Wisconsin-Marathon County
Mark HenriksenAssoc. Prof., University of Marlyand, Baltimore County
Eric Lufkin Analyst, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
Adeline CauletInstrument Scientist, European Southern Observatory

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