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Research Interests<\/h2>\n

Professor Thomas Bania<\/a><\/strong> – Radio spectroscopy; Galactic Structure; Interstellar Medium.<\/em><\/p>\n

Associate Professor Elizabeth Blanton<\/a><\/strong> – High-energy astrophysics, Optical and NIR observational astronomy; Clusters of galaxies, Radio galaxies.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Tereasa Brainerd<\/a><\/strong> – Theoretical astrophysics; cosmology; computational astrophysics; galaxy formation & evolution; astrophysical applications of gravitational lensing.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Dan Clemens<\/a><\/strong> – Galactic structure; Interstellar medium; Star formation; Infrared and optical astronomy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Associate Professor Catherine Espaillat<\/a><\/strong> –young stars, planet formation, circumstellar disk structure and evolution, multiwavelength variability, radiative transfer modeling<\/em><\/p>\n

Assistant Professor JJ Hermes<\/a><\/strong> – High-precision observations of the endpoints of stars, planets, and binary systems; asteroseismology; time-domain astrophysics; space-based photometry; persistent gravitational wave sources<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Alan Marscher<\/a><\/strong> – Quasars and other active galactic nuclei, High-energy astrophysics, Black holes, Jets<\/em><\/p>\n

Associate Professor Philip Muirhead<\/a><\/strong> – Fundamental properties of low-mass stars, Statistics and characteristics of exoplanets, Stars and stellar evolution, Novel astronomical instrumentation<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Merav Opher<\/a><\/strong> – Computational and theoretical plasma physics in space and astrophysics; Interaction of the solar system with the interstellar medium; solar wind; shocks in the lower corona, T-Tauri and Solar-Like Stars.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research Interests Professor Thomas Bania – Radio spectroscopy; Galactic Structure; Interstellar Medium. Associate Professor Elizabeth Blanton – High-energy astrophysics, Optical and NIR observational astronomy; Clusters of galaxies, Radio galaxies. Professor Tereasa Brainerd – Theoretical astrophysics; cosmology; computational astrophysics; galaxy formation & evolution; astrophysical applications of gravitational lensing. Professor Dan Clemens – Galactic structure; Interstellar medium; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15894,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1862\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}