Astrophysics and Cosmology

Overview

Fourteen full-time faculty members are joined by staff, postdocs, and students in research on astrophysics and cosmology. Major areas of research include:

We address these questions from many angles: 

  • developing new instrumentation in the optical, millimeter, and sub-millimeter regimes; 
  • observations from the radio through x-ray; 
  • analysis of large survey datasets; 
  • computation and simulation; 
  • and theory. 

There is close collaboration between the astrophysics group and Penn researchers conducting laboratory and astrophysical studies of the nature of dark matter (Klein, Sanderson) and theoretical studies of gravitational and dark-sector physics (Khoury, LeeTrodden). Many members of the department apply techniques from data science and machine learning to astronomical datasets (Bernardi, JainMadhavacherilSako, Sanderson).

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James Aguirre
  • Astrophysics and Cosmology
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Reese W. Flower Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics


(215) 573-6252

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  • Astrophysics and Cosmology
Cullen Blake
  • Astrophysics and Cosmology
Mark Devlin

Reese W. Flower Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics


(215) 573-7521

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  • Astrophysics and Cosmology
Bhuvnesh Jain

Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences

Co-Director of the Penn Center for Particle Cosmology, Co-Director of the Penn Data Driven Discovery Initiative


(215) 573-5330

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  • Astrophysics and Cosmology
Justin Khoury
  • Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • Nuclear and Particle Physics
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Assistant Professor


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  • Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • Nuclear and Particle Physics
Adam Lidz
  • Astrophysics and Cosmology
Mathew Madhavacheril
  • Astrophysics and Cosmology
Masao Sako

Arifa Hasan Ahmad and Nada Al Shoaibi Presidential Professor of Physics and Astronomy


215/898-8151

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  • Astrophysics and Cosmology
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  • Astrophysics and Cosmology

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Professor and Graduate Chair


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  • Astrophysics and Cosmology
Mark Trodden

Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor of Physics

Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Co-Director of the Penn Center for Particle Cosmology


215-898-7938

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  • Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • Nuclear and Particle Physics

News

Events



Astrophysics Seminar: Beyond the first wave: where we stand in understanding binary neutron star and black hole formation channels.

Lieke van Son (Flatiron Institute)
- | David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 4E19


Astrophysics Seminar: "TBA"

Stephen Chen (Princeton)
- | David Rittnehouse Laboratory, 4E19


Astrophysics Seminar: "TBA"

Cynthia Chiang (McGill)
- | David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8