David A. Dunlap Astronomy and Astrophysics

Bryan Gaensler

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • David A. Dunlap Astronomy and Astrophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Astronomy
• Cosmic magnetism
• Cosmology
• Galaxies
• Gender and diversity issues in astronomy
• International astronomical mega-projects
• Radio astronomy
• Supernovae and cosmic explosions

Office: 416-978-6223
Languages: English
Website
Email: bryan.gaensler@utoronto.ca
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Ethen Sun

PhD Candidate

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • David A. Dunlap Astronomy and Astrophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Aurora and space weather
• General astronomy and telescopes
• Radiation and radioactivity
• The Sun and solar science

Office: 416-978-4777
Email: sun@astro.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Heidi White

Astrophysicist;

Educational Content Developer

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • David A. Dunlap Astronomy and Astrophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Astronomy
• Cosmology
• Galaxies
• Space missions
• Space science

Office: N/A
Languages: French
Email: heidi.white@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Keith Vanderlinde

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • David A. Dunlap Astronomy and Astrophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Astronomy
• Computers in astronomy
• Cosmology
• Galaxies
• Large scale structure in the universe
• Long wavelength (radio, microwave) instrumentation and cosmology
• Particularly large scale structure
• Radio astronomy
• Radio telescopes
• South Pole radio astronomy
• The expansion history of the universe.

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-946-5436
Languages: English
Website
Email: vanderlinde@astro.utoronto.ca
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Maria Drout

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • David A. Dunlap Astronomy and Astrophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Evolution
• Influence
• Ultimate fate of massive stars

Office: (647) 606-8194
Languages: English
Website
Email: maria.drout@utoronto.ca
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Marten van Kerkwijk

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • David A. Dunlap Astronomy and Astrophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Binaries
• Black holes
• Neutron stars, pulsars
• Stars
• stellar evolution
• stellar explosions
• Supernovae
• White dwarfs
• X-ray astronomy

Office: (416) 946-7288
Home: 416-203-7137
Languages: English,Dutch; Flemish
Website
Email: mhvk@astro.utoronto.ca
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Michael Reid

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • David A. Dunlap Astronomy and Astrophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Communicating astronomy to non-experts
• The development of an evolutionary sequence for high-mass pre-protostellar objects.
• The origins of the stellar initial mass function.
• The search for and classification of young, high-mass protostellar and pre-protostellar objects.

Office: (416) 978-0307
Languages: English
Website
Email: mike.reid@utoronto.ca
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Raymond Carlberg

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • David A. Dunlap Astronomy and Astrophysics

Areas of Expertise

• CNOC (Galaxy Clusters evolution and dark matter)
• CNOC2 (Field galaxy clustering and evolution)
• Cosmology
• Dark energy
• Dark matter
• Extremely large telescopes
• High Arctic Astronomy
• SNLS (Supernova Legacy Survey)
• VLOT/Thirty Meter Telescope (1998-2016)

Office: 416-978-3150
Website
Email: carlberg@astro.utoronto.ca
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Renée Hložek

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • David A. Dunlap Astronomy and Astrophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Astrostatistics
• Cosmic microwave background
• Observational cosmology
• Reionisation
• Supernovae
• Theoretical cosmology

Office: N/A
Mobile: 647-573-6445
Languages: English
Website
Email: hlozek@astro.utoronto.ca
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Roberto Abraham

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • David A. Dunlap Astronomy and Astrophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Astronomy
• Galaxies
• Galaxy evolution
• Telescopes

Office: 416-946-7289
Mobile: 647-388-4345
Languages: English,Spanish - Latin American,French
Website
Email: abraham@astro.utoronto.ca

Suresh Sivanandam

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • David A. Dunlap Astronomy and Astrophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Adaptive optics
• Astronomical Instruments (spectrographs and spectroscopy)
• Astronomy
• Galaxies and galaxy clusters
• Galaxy Formation and Evolution
• Optical/IR instrumentation.
• Telescopes and astronomical observatories

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-978-6550
Languages: English,Tamil
Website
Email: sivanandam@astro.utoronto.ca
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