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Flávio S Azevedo
Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
flavio@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Investigates the nature of STEM interests and interest-driven participation and learning, foundations of cognition in STEM disciplines, and learning out of schools.

Thomas G Barnes
Research Affiliate - Research Fellow, McDonald Observatory, College of Natural Sciences
tgb@astro.as.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1301
Expertise: Astronomy; variable stars; stellar distance scales; Cepheid variable stars; observatory management; National Science Foundation; optical and infrared astronomy; extraterrestrial life

Frank N Bash
Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
fnbash@gmail.com
Expertise: Telescopes; star formation; spiral galaxies

Anita L Cochran
Assistant Director for Research Support, McDonald Observatory, College of Natural Sciences
anita@astro.as.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1471
Expertise: Astronomy, our solar system (particularly comets, asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects); origins of planetary systems; optical spectroscopy; McDonald Observatory

Neal J Evans
Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
nje@astro.as.utexas.edu
Expertise: Star formation; interstellar medium; radio astronomy; infrared astronomy; extraterrestrial life; NASA Spitzer Space Telescope

Niall Gaffney
Director for Data Intensive Computing, Texas Advanced Computing Center
ngaffney@tacc.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 9504
Expertise: Design of data workflows in parallel computing systems; Data discovery systems; Data preservation; Astronomical data reduction and analysis

Karl Gebhardt
Professor, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
gebhardt@astro.as.utexas.edu
+1 512 590 5206
Expertise: Astronomy, black holes, globular clusters, elliptical galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark energy, HETDEX, Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment

Richard D Hazeltine
Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences
rdh@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Theoretical plasma physics; fusion; transport theory.

Shardha Jogee
Professor, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
sj@astro.as.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1395
Expertise: Astronomy, galaxy evolution, Hubble Space Telescope, galaxy surveys (GEMS, GOODS, Hubble Ultra Deep Field, STAGES), ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/Sub-millimeter Array)

John Kormendy
Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
kormendy@astro.as.utexas.edu
Expertise: Astronomy, black holes, elliptical galaxies, galactic bulges, dark matter, Andromeda Galaxy

Richard A Matzner
Professor, Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences
matzner2@physics.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5062
Expertise: Cosmology; general relativity; computational astrophysics; satellite dynamics; large-scale computation

Deirdre Shoemaker
Professor, Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences
deirdre.shoemaker@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Her research interests center on black holes and gravitational waves, understanding these and other aspects of strong gravity and how it reveals itself in the universe. To that end, Prof. Shoemaker works with gravitational wave detector teams to work toward understanding gravitational physics.

Christophe A Sneden
Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
chris@verdi.as.utexas.edu
Expertise: Astronomy, spectroscopy of stars; chemical compositions of stars; evolution of the Milky Way galaxy; the life cycles of stars

J C Wheeler
Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu
Expertise: Astronomy; Stars and stellar evolution; supernovae; compact stars, neutron stars and black holes; accretion disks; nucleosynthesis; gamma-ray bursts, astrobiology