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ABOUT
Ann Zabludoff is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. She has led studies across astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology, including analyses of large observational datasets and theoretical simulations. She has worked to adapt astronomical instruments for new science.
After obtaining S.B. degrees in Physics (1986) and in Mathematics (1987) from MIT, she received a Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University in 1993. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2013-14, a TEDx speaker in 2012, and the Caroline Herschel Distinguished Visitor
at the Space Telescope Science Institute in 2011–2013.
Her service includes advising the NSF, NASA, DOE, and international research institutes. She has mentored numerous junior scientists and was Graduate Program Director for UA Astronomy from 2005 to 2013, supervising 40-50 PhD students at a time. She is a U.S. Participating Scientist on the ULTRASAT mission. She co-leads the Computation and Data Initiative (CDI) of
UA’s Theoretical Astrophysics Program.
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YUJING QIN
Graduate Advisee, Transient Host Astrophysics
YANG SUN
Graduate Advisee, Finding Hidden Astrophysical Transients
SIXIANG WEN
Postdoctoral Researcher, Tidal Disruption Event Modeling
YUJING QIN
Graduate Advisee, Transient Host Astrophysics
YANG SUN
Graduate Advisee, Finding Hidden Astrophysical Transients
SIXIANG WEN
Postdoctoral Researcher, Tidal Disruption Event Modeling
YUJING QIN
Graduate Advisee, Transient Host Astrophysics
YANG SUN
Graduate Advisee, Finding Hidden Astrophysical Transients
SIXIANG WEN
Postdoctoral Researcher, Tidal Disruption Event Modeling
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RESEARCH GROUP
AARON GOLDTOOTH
Undergraduate Advisee, Tidal Disruption Event X-ray Analysis
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SUVRAT GUPTA
Undergraduate Advisee, Tidal Disruption Event Database
JAKE HELTON
Graduate Advisee, Star Formation Histories of Post-Starburst Galaxies
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NICOLE KERRISON
Undergraduate Advisee, Effects of Environment on Galaxy Evolution
EUNCHONG KIM
Graduate Collaborator, Polarization of Lyman-alpha Nebulae
CHIA-LIN KO
Graduate Advisee, Astrophysical Applications of Machine Learning
YUJING QIN
Graduate Advisee, Transient Host Astrophysics
YANG SUN
Graduate Advisee, Finding Hidden Astrophysical Transients
SIXIANG WEN
Postdoctoral Researcher, Tidal Disruption Event Modeling
Past Members
PAST MEMBERS
S. MARK AMMONS
Hubble Fellow, now Research Staff, Physics Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
ASHOORDIN ASHOORMARAM
Graduate Advisee, now Analyst, Industry
ZHENG CAI
Graduate Collaborator, now Associate Professor, Tsinghua Center for Astrophysics, Tsinghua University
DANIEL CHRISTLEIN
Graduate Advisee, now Managing Director, Predictive Financing GmbH
LEI BAI
Graduate Collaborator, now Data Scientist, Toronto Police Service
STEFANO BELLOTTI
Graduate Collaborator, now PhD student, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie: Toulouse
RICHARD COOL
Graduate Collaborator, now Senior Data Scientist, Netflix
MICHAEL COOPER
Spitzer Fellow, now Professor, University of California, Irvine
TAHLIA DEMAIO
Graduate Collaborator, now Product Expert, Hex Technologies
KATHERYN DECKER FRENCH
Graduate Advisee, 2019 ASP Robert J. Trumpler Awardee, now Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
ANTHONY GONZALEZ
Graduate Collaborator, now Professor and Associate Chair, University of Florida
CHUCK KEETON
Bok Fellow, now Professor, Rutgers University and Faculty Director, Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates
DANIEL KELSON
Graduate Collaborator, now Staff Associate, Carnegie Observatories
KIM VY TRAN
Graduate Collaborator, now Faculty, School of Physics, University of New South Wales
GWANG-HO LEE
KASI-Arizona Postdoctoral Fellow, now Scientist, Samsung
ZHIHUI LI
Undergraduate Advisee, now Graduate Student in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Caltech
IVELINA MOMCHEVA
Graduate Advisee, now Head of Data Science, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
STUART NORTON
Graduate Collaborator, Astronomy & Computer Science, now Director of Software Engineering, Juniper Networks
CURTIS MCCULLY
Graduate Collaborator, now Astro Data Scientist, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network and University of California, Santa Barbara
DANIEL MCINTOSH
Graduate Collaborator, now Professor and Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Director, STEM Education Research, University of Missouri, Kansas City
SURESH SIVANANDAM
Graduate Collaborator, now Professor and Acting Director, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto
CHRISTY TREMONTI
Hubble Fellow, now Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
KURTIS WILLIAMS
Post-Doctoral Researcher, now Associate Professor, Texas A&M, Commerce
MICHELLE WILSON
Graduate Advisee, now Analyst, Engility Corporation
KENNETH WONG
Graduate Advisee, now Staff Member, Subaru Division, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
YUJIN YANG
Graduate Advisee, now Staff Scientist, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)
TEACHING
This course, which is intended as a first science course for non-science majors, focuses on general astronomy, the observational and theoretical study of objects in our Universe.
This course, which is for non-science majors, takes an in-depth look at some of the questions that stumped astronomers of the past and that puzzle astronomers today.
This course covers most aspects of astronomy, including stars, galaxies, and cosmology, and is intended as the first astronomy course for astronomy majors.
This course, which is intended for upper-division astronomy and physics majors, surveys extragalactic astrophysics, ranging from the properties of galaxies to the fundamentals of modern cosmology.
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OUTREACH
Talking with 2nd graders at Dunham Elementary in Tucson, Arizona. Photo: Tuan Cao.
Learn more about my work at TEDxTucson, The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast, Astronomy Magazine’s Astro Confidential: Astro Ideas, or iTunes U: Violence in Our Extragalactic Neighborhood.
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I am a career panelist at the Expanding Your Horizons science and engineering workshop for teenage girls.
My research with student Decker French appears in Research Highlights from the Journals of the American Astronomical Society and New Scientist.
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My team’s Hubble Space Telescope image is
featured by NASA.
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