Keith Vanderlinde studies the nature and evolution of large-scale structure in the Universe, as well as the evolution of the cosmos itself. Studying large-scale structure requires specialized instruments and Vanderlinde is a member of collaborations using and developing ones that are unique. One such instrument…

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Past Interim and Acting Director Peter Martin studies gas and dust in the interstellar medium (ISM) in the Milky Way Galaxy. His research spans the range from the high latitude atomic ISM to the dense structures in molecular clouds at the onset of star formation,…

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At the Dunlap Institute, María Montero-Castaño studied the evolution of galaxies in the complex environment of galaxy clusters.

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Duy Cuong Nguyen was a member of the Dunlap Institute through the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) project. APOGEE is a high-resolution infrared spectroscopic survey of 100,000 stars across the Milky Way, and is one of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) III…

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Anne-Marie Weijmans has spent much of her career studying the dark matter haloes of galaxies. The halo is the most massive component of a galaxy and plays a critical role in the system’s formation and evolution. Weijmans maps the invisible halo by measuring the movement…

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Shelley Wright’s research focuses on understanding how galaxies form and evolve over cosmic time. She makes most of her observations with integral-field spectrographs, coupled with adaptive-optics systems on the largest telescopes in the world. These high-resolution observations reveal the internal motions and chemical make-up of…

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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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