Research - Cosmology, Astrophysics, Formation and Evolution of
Galaxies
Casey Papovich's research is in the areas of
observational cosmology, the formation and evolution of the most
distant galaxies, and the growth of large scale structures of
galaxies. His recent work focuses on observations of the properties
of the first galaxies, constraints on cosmological reionization,
quantifying the growth and assembly of stellar mass in galaxies in
the early universe, the formation of galaxy clusters and their
properties, and using satellite galaxies to test of the nature of
dark matter and feedback mechanisms in galaxy evolution.
Dr. Papovich's research utilizes data from all of NASA's space-based
Great Observatories (Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra), the NASA/ESA
Herschel Space Observatory, and the largest terrestrial
telescopes, including the Gemini Observatory, Magellan Telescopes,
Keck Observatory, and the ALMA Observatory. He is a project
scientist for GMACS, the
primary wide-field spectrograph being
built for the 25m Giant Magellan
Telescope (GMT). He is involved in multiple
international collaborations, projects, and surveys, including the ZFOURGE, CANDELS,
CLEAR, HETDEX, Dark Energy
Survey, LSST projects. He
is an investigator on the James Webb Space Telescope CEERS
Early Release Science program.
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Vitae
Texas A&M University
Professor, 2016 - present
Marsha L. '69 and Ralph F. Schilling '68 Chair in Experimental Physics, 2015 - present
Associate Professor, 2012 - 2016
Assistant Professor, 2008 - 2012
University of Arizona
Spitzer Fellow, 2005 - 2008
Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2001 - 2005
Johns Hopkins University
College of William and Mary
BS Physics with honors, 1995
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