Faculty

Faculty

Kelly Holley-Bockelmann
Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Galaxy Formation
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Email: k.holley@vanderbilt.edu
Office: SC 6912

Karan Jani
Research Assistant Professor
Gravitational-Wave Astronomy, LIGO, Numerical Relativity

Email: karan.jani@vanderbilt.edu
Office:
SC 6907G

Jessie Runnoe (She/Her)
Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Active galactic nuclei. (Super)massive black hole binaries. Changing-state quasars. Multi-messenger and time-domain astrophysics. Astronomical surveys. .

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Email: jessie.c.runnoe@Vanderbilt.Edu
Office:  SC 6916

Robert Scherrer
Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Particles, Fields, & Cosmology

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Email: robert.scherrer@vanderbilt.edu
Office: SC 6301

Keivan Stassun (He/Him/His)
Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Star Formation; Eclipsing Binaries, Exoplanets (KELT, TESS)

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Email: keivan.stassun@vanderbilt.edu
Office: SC 6914

Stephen Taylor
Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Gravitational Waves. Black Holes. Statistics and data-analysis. Pulsar-timing Arrays.

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Email: stephen.r.taylor@Vanderbilt.edu
Office: SC 6910

Teaching/Research Faculty

Jonathan Bird
Director of Graduate Studies
Disk Galaxy Assembly and Evolution, Galactic Archaeology, Spectroscopic Surveys, Numerical Simulations

Email:jonathan.bird@vanderbilt.edu
Office:
SC 6907F

Lauren Campbell
Research Assistant Professor
Galactic Structure

Email:lauren.e.p.campbell@vanderbilt.edu
Office:
SC 6717

William Gabella (He/Him/His)
Research Assistant Professor
Gravitational waves, wormholes &black holes, nonlinear dynamics, hardware control systems

Email: b.gabella@vanderbilt.edu
Office:
SC 6907H

Erika Grundstrom
Principle Senior Lecturer, Director of Astronomy Labs
Massive Binaries, Astronomy Education

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Email: erika.grundstrom@vanderbilt.edu
Office:
SC 6909

Robert O’Dell
Distinguished Research Professor of Astronomy
Observational Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae
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Email: cr.odell@vanderbilt.edu
Office: SC 6907D

Susan Stewart
Adjoint Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Astronomer, U.S. Naval Observatory
Solar System Dynamics; Astrometry; Navigation

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Email: susan.g.stewart@vanderbilt.edu
Office: SC 6907E

Associated Faculty

Thomas Kephart
Professor of Physics
Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics

Email: thomas.w.kephart@vanderbilt.edu
Office: SC 6609

Thomas Weiler
Professor of Physics
Fundamental Particle Theory;
Cosmic Ray & Neutrinos

Email: tom.weiler@vanderbilt.edu
Office: SC 6613

Emeritus Faculty

David Weintraub
Emeritus Professor of Astronomy
Formation of Stars and Planets
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Email: david.weintraub@vanderbilt.edu
Office:

Robert A. Weller
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Gravitational-wave astronomy, black holes, LIGO, Cosmology

Email: robert.a.weller@vanderbilt.edu
Office:

Arnold Heiser
Emeritus Professor of Astronomy
Stellar Clusters & Associations
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Email: a.heiser@vanderbilt.edu
Office:

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