Director, 2010 – 2013 In his tenure as the first Director of the Dunlap Institute, James Graham oversaw growth and development that made the Dunlap Institute a vital complement to the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics (DAA) and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA),…

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Using a number of balloon-born instruments, including BLASTpol, Spider and SuperBIT, Prof. Barth Netterfield studies galactic star formation and measures anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background. Personal research page Cosmic microwave background Hydrogen intensity mapping Baryonic acoustic oscillations Large scale structure    

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In December 2014, Konopacky left the Dunlap to become Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences, UC San Diego.

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David Law studies the formation, properties and evolution of galaxies and their dark matter halos. With instruments like the Hubble Space Telescope and the twin Keck telescopes, he observes very distant galaxies at a time of abundant star-formation. Law is a member of the Mapping…

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Prof. Ue-Li Pen is a theoretical astrophysicist with the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at U of T. He studies systems in which basic physical effects can be isolated from astronomical complexities. Current projects include the non-linear dynamics of the cosmic neutrino background, 21cm intensity…

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Professor Bryan Gaensler is a leading international researcher in cosmic magnetism, supernova explosions and interstellar gas. His research focuses on why the Universe is magnetic, as well as on the study of transient phenomenon as a unique probe of fundamental physics.

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Hložek is an Associate Professor at the Dunlap Institute and the David A. Dunlap Department for Astronomy and Astrophysics. She studies a variety of problems in theoretical and observational cosmology. Her research focuses on understanding what the Universe is made of, its structure and how…

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Juan is an observational cosmologist that develops novel instrumentation and analysis techniques for studying the origin, composition, and evolution of the Universe. Juan has played a crucial role in the development of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a ground-breaking radio telescope designed to…

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At the Dunlap Institute, Nicholas Law searched for exoplanets on many fronts. As part of the Palomar Transit Factory survey, he has detected potential exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars. He was also a member of the team developing planet-hunting instruments at the Dunlap Institute, including Arctic…

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Prof. Suresh Sivanandam studies the formation and evolution of galaxies in clusters, and is a key member of many instrumentation projects.

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