Mark Voit
Mark Voit is an astronomer at the Space Telescope
Science Institute who also works in the Institute's
Office of Public Outreach. His research interests
range over many topics in theoretical astrophysics,
including the transformation of primordial gases
into today's stars and galaxies, the effects of
black holes on galaxies that harbor them, and how
the properties of galaxy clusters reveal our universe's
ultimate fate. He received his Ph.D. from the University
of Colorado and continued his research as a postdoctoral
fellow at Caltech and a Hubble Fellow at Johns Hopkins
before coming to the Space Telescope Science Institute.
In fall 2003, he will be moving to Michigan State
University as a professor in the department of Physics
and Astronomy.
In addition to his research, Mark specializes in
introducing
general audiences to the extraordinary universe
unveiled by the
Hubble Space Telescope. Mark was project scientist
for the
Smithsonian traveling exhibition "Hubble Space
Telescope:
New Views of the Universe" and is author of
a popular
companion book by the same title. He is the scientist
behind NASA's HubbleSite and is also co-author of
"The
Cosmic Perspective," a widely used, non-technical
astronomy textbook.
When not working, Mark like to spend time with
his wife, Megan Donahue,
and his three kids, Michaela, Sebastian, and Angela,
often dragging them out to the woods to enjoy running,
hiking, and orienteering.
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