Research - Cosmology, Astrophysics, Formation and Evolution of
Galaxies
Casey Papovich's research is in the areas of
observational astrophysics and 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) and the James
Webb Space Telescope. He uses the largest terrestrial
telescopes, including the Gemini Observatory, Magellan Telescopes,
Keck Observatory, and the ALMA Observatory. He has plans for the 25m Giant Magellan
Telescope (GMT), in which Texas A&M University is a founding
partner. He is involved in multiple, ongoing
international collaborations, projects, and surveys, including the ZFOURGE, CANDELS,
CLEAR, HETDEX, Dark Energy
Survey, LSST projects. He
is an investigator on the JWST CEERS
Early Release Science program, co-PI of The
Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) survey (a
Cycle 1 large program), and many other JWST Cycle 1 programs.
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Texas A&M University
Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2021
Professor, 2016 - present
Marsha L. '69 and Ralph F. Schilling '68 Chair in
Physics and Astronomy, 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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