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Bryan Gaensler

Professor

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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Keith Vanderlinde

Associate Professor

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

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

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

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

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: raymond.carlberg@utoronto.ca
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Renée Hložek

Associate Professor

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

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

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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