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Adam Frank

Adam Frank

Professor of astrophysics, science commentator, and popular authorUniversity of Rochester

Frank is a leading expert on how stars form and how they die, as well as civilizations before humans

Extraterrestrial LifeSpace DiscoveriesLife on Other PlanetsCivilizations and climate changeTheoretical Astrophysics
Duane Hamacher

Duane Hamacher

Associate Professor of Cultural AstronomyUniversity of Melbourne

Academic, Astronomer, Science Communicator

GeomythologyHistory of MeteoriticsEthnoastronomyArchaeoastronomyAstrophysics
Tanya Harrison

Tanya Harrison

FellowOuter Space Institute

Professional Martian who has worked on rocks and robots on the Red Planet.

Space and AstrophysicsClimate ChangeSatellite Based Remote Sensing of the Earth/atmosphere SystemEarth Science Women in STEM Careers
Guido Mueller

Guido Mueller

ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Guido Mueller’s research interests include quantum optics and detectors for axions and axion-like particles.

SpaceAstrophysicsLIGOGravitational Waves
Shannon Schmoll

Shannon Schmoll

Director, Abrams PlanetariumMichigan State University

Shannon Schmoll is an expert on basic astronomy, naked-eye astronomy, eclipses, constellations and the night sky.

Night SkyEclipsesBasic AstronomyPlanetariumsScience Education
Jonathan Trump, Ph.D.

Jonathan Trump, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of PhysicsUniversity of Connecticut

Jonathan Trump is an observational astronomer who studies active galaxies

Physics and Astronomy Black HolesSupermassive Black HolesActive Galaxies
Katherine Whitaker

Katherine Whitaker

Associate Professor of AstronomyUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Kate Whitaker is an observational extragalactic astronomer who studies galaxy formation and evolution at the very edges of the universe.

Detection of Dead GalaxiesGalaxy formation and evolutionAstronomy
Diane Turnshek

Diane Turnshek

Special LecturerCarnegie Mellon University

Diane Turnshek has spent her career studying astronomy and is one of the foremost experts on light pollution.

Dark Sky OrdinanceLight PollutionArtificial LightAstronomy
James Bullock

James Bullock

Dean, School of Physical Sciences, Professor Physical Sciences, Physics & AstronomyUC Irvine

James Bullock studies how galaxies and their constituent dark matter halos have formed and evolved over billions of years of cosmic time.

Dark MatterStar FormationAstronomyGalaxy DynamicsPhysics
Keivan Stassun

Keivan Stassun

Stevenson Professor of Physics and AstronomyVanderbilt University

Expert in the search for Earth-like planets across the galaxy and an advocate for diversity, including neurodiversity, in the academy.

Star FormationPlanet FormationAstronomyPlanetary SystemsAstronomical Phenomena