Faculty
Christoph Baranec * Astronomer
IfA Hawaii island, Hilo 214 (808) 932-2318; Manoa C109D (808) 956-8637
(808) 498-9817
Robo-AO, Robo-AO-2 (Palomar, Kitt Peak, Maunakea), Robo-AO Kepler Planetary Candidate Survey, Rapid Transient Surveyor, `imaka (PI: M. Chun), IfA TechTalks
Joshua Barnes * Astronomer
Dynamical Reconstruction of Galaxy Collisions, Numerical Methods for Galactic Dynamics
Eric Baxter * Assistant Professor
Adwin Boogert * Associate Astronomer (IRTF Support Astronomer)
InfraRed Telescope Facility, Ice Age: JWST Studies of Interstellar Ice, High resolution infrared spectroscopy (SOFIA/EXES, TEXES, IRTF/iSHELL)
Michael Bottom * Assistant Astronomer
Fabio Bresolin * Astronomer
Stellar and nebular abundances in nearby galaxies, distance scale
Bobby Bus * Astronomer; IRTF Deputy Director
Asteroids
Kenneth Chambers * Astronomer, Pan-STARRS Director
cosmology, wide field surveys , distant galaxies and quasars , explosive transients , near earth objects
Mark Chun * Specialist, Associate Director of IfA-Hilo
`imaka - A ground-layer adaptive optics testbed for Maunakea, Keck near-infrared pyramid wavefront sensor, MIRAO - A thermal infrared optimized AOS for TMT, UH88AM2 - A new adaptive secondary mirror for the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter Telescope
Michael Connelley * Associate Astronomer; IRTF Support Scientist
Antoinette Cowie * Astronomer
Roy Gal * Associate Specialist
ORELSE survey, Outreach
Shadia Habbal * Astronomer
Eclipse Parametric Observations, Solar Magnetic Fields, Origin & Evolution of Solar Winds
Colby Haggerty * Assistant Professor
IfA Mānoa
Klaus Hodapp * Astronomer and UKIRT director
JWST NIRCam GTO: Spectroscopy of spatially separated exoplanets, JWST NIRCam GTO: Dust and Ice in Molecular Cores
Esther Hu * Astronomer
Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Lyman alpha emitters and the High Redshift Universe, The Epoch of Reionization, Galaxy Surveys, Quasar Absorption Line Studies
Daniel Huber * Associate Astronomer
Asteroseismology, Exoplanets, Stellar Populations of Transit Surveys, Optical Long-Baseline Interferometry, Galactic Archeology
Robert Jedicke * Specialist
Orbit and size distributions of asteroid populations including main belt and near Earth objects, Centaurs, Trans-Neptunian objects, comets, and interstellar objects., over 120 refereed publications as of 2020 May 18
Jeffrey Kuhn * Astronomer
Haosheng Lin * Astronomer
Michael Liu * Astronomer and Graduate Chair
Exoplanets, brown dwarfs, star & planet formation, astrometry, adaptive optics, wide-field surveys, IR instrumentation
Eugene Magnier * Specialist, Pan-STARRS & Undergraduate Chair
Pan-STARRS, Low-Mass Content of the Solar Neighborhood, Andromeda Variability
Karen Meech * Astronomer
Manx comets-testing dynamical models, Comet volatiles (H2O, CO, CO2), Comet/asteroid space missions , Characterizing Earth's primordial water, Interstellar planetesimals
Roberto Méndez * Astronomer
Central stars of Galactic planetary nebulae; kinematics of extragalactic planetary nebulae.
John Rayner * Astronomer, IRTF Director
Observatory management, Instrumentation development, Infrared spectroscopy
David Sanders * Astronomer and Professor
Benjamin Shappee * Assistant Astronomer
All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae(ASAS-SN or "assassin")
Xudong Sun * Assistant Astronomer
Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), Daniel K. Inoue Solar Telescope (DKIST)
John Tonry * Astronomer
Jennifer van Saders * Assistant Astronomer
Richard Wainscoat * Specialist
Pan-STARRS, Near Earth Objects, Dark Skies