Department/College/UnitPhysical & Biological Sciences Division

TitleAdjunct Professor

AffiliationFaculty

Web Siteweb

Primary Office LocationInterdisciplinary Sciences Building
112

Mail StopUCO / Lick Observatory

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Astronomy, Harvard University, 1999
M.A., Astronomy, Harvard University, 1996
B.S., Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994

Summary of Expertise

galaxy formation and dynamics
dark matter
star clusters

Awards, Honors and Grants

Research Corporation for Science Advancement Cottrell Scholar Award

Selected Exhibitions

• Dwarfs gobbling dwarfs
• The Umbrella Galaxy
• The Bolshoi Simulation
• SAGES surveys
• Planetary Nebula Spectrograph

Selected Publications

• Dwarfs Gobbling Dwarfs: A Stellar Tidal Stream Around NGC 4449 and Hierarchical Galaxy Formation on Small Scales
• The ongoing assembly of a central cluster galaxy: Phase-space substructures in the halo of M87
• The Fossil Record of Two-phase Galaxy Assembly: Kinematics and Metallicities in the Nearest S0 Galaxy
• Mapping The Dark Side with DEIMOS: Globular Clusters, X-Ray Gas, and Dark Matter in the NGC 1407 Group
• A Dearth of Dark Matter in Ordinary Elliptical Galaxies