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Bryan Gaensler (On leave)
Professor, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics and David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Research interests: Interstellar medium, cosmic magnetism, time-domain astrophysics.
Renée Hložek
Associate Professor, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics and David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Research interests: Observational and theoretical cosmology, dark matter physics, axions, cosmic microwave background, supernovae, astrostatistics, reionisation, interdisciplinary applications of astronomy to other fields.
Juan Mena-Parra
Assistant Professor, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics and David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Research interests: CHIME, Cosmology and Dark Energy, Hydrogen Intensity Mapping, Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations, Large Scale Structure, Time Domain Science, Fast Radio Bursts.
Laurie Rousseau-Nepton
Assistant Professor, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics and David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Research interests: Star-Formation, Instrumentation, Imaging Spectroscopy, Galaxy Evolution, Massive Stars, Surveys, Interstellar Medium
Suresh Sivanandam
Interim Director, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics; Associate Professor, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, stellar populations, adaptive optics, UV/optical/IR instrumentation, astrophotonics.
Keith Vanderlinde
Associate Professor, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics and David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Research interests: Radio instrumentation, cosmology (large scale structure and expansion history), and the transient radio sky.
Roberto Abraham
Chair, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics; Professor, David A .Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Research interests: High redshift galaxies, the evolution and morphology of galaxies, observational cosmology, low-surface brightness astronomy, innovative instrumentation (such as the Dragonfly Telephoto Array).
Jo Bovy
Associate Professor, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Research interests: Galactic dynamics; galactic structure and evolution; dark matter; chemical abundances and spectroscopy; data modeling and analysis techniques.
Maria Drout
Assistant Professor, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Research interests: Time-domain astronomy, supernova, peculiar astronomical transients, massive star evolution, stellar populations, electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves.
Ting Li
Assistant Professor, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Research interests: Galactic archaeology, metal-poor stars, stellar spectroscopy, large scale sky surveys, optical instrumentation
Dae-Sik Moon
Professor, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Research interests: Experimental astrophysics, instrumentation, compact objects (black holes, neutron stars, and X-ray binaries), supernovae/ GRBs, supernova remnants, highly-obscured hard X-ray sources.
Barth Netterfield
Professor, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics; Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Research interests: Observational Cosmology via measurements of anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background.
Ue-Li Pen
Professor, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Physics (CITA)
Research interests: N-body and hydro simulations, origin of galaxy spin, dark energy: 21cm cosmology, BAO, absorber acceleration; FRB and pulsars: gravitational waves, wave optics, lensing.
John Percy
Professor Emeritus, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Research interests: Variable stars and stellar evolution; education and outreach.
Josh Speagle
Assistant Professor, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Department of Statistical Sciences
Research interests: Astrostatistics, large sky surveys, Milky Way science, galaxy formation and evolution, stars and clusters, star formation and the interstellar medium.
Marten van Kerkwijk
Professor, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Research interests: Compact objects, stars and binaries, their structure, formation and evolution, and their use to infer fundamental physical properties.
