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(University of Michigan)
Douglas Richstone is Professor and Chair of Astronomy
at the University of Michigan, where he has worked
since 1980. He has held brief concurrent appointments
at the National Observatory of Japan, the Institute
for Advanced Study and the Institute for Theoretical
Physics at UC Santa Barbara, and as a Guggenheim
Fellow.
Richstone received a B.S. with honors in Astronomy
from Caltech and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Princeton
University in 1975. His most active current research
activities include dynamics of galaxy centers and
the demographics, formation and evolution of massive
black holes. He is the leader of the "Nukers",
an international collaboration of 15 scientists
studying the nuclei of galaxies, and a member of
the LISA (Large Interferometry Space Antenna) Science
Team. He maintains interests in the estimation of
cosmological parameters and formation and evolution
of clusters of galaxies.
His service activities over the last decade include
the State of Ohio Physics and Astronomy Review of
Ph.D. Programs, member and chair of the Space Telescope
Institute Council, the Gemini Project Oversight
Committee, American Astronomical Society and Dynamical
Division Prize Committees and the DDA council, the
AURA (Association of Universities for Research in
Astronomy) Board of Directors and the NASA Space
Science Advisory Committee. He currently is a member
of the NASA Origins Subcommittee and chairs the
Astronomy and Physics Working Group.
This image was created from data from the HST program
8591: D. Richstone (U. Michigan), S. Faber (UCSC),
J. Pinkney (U. Michigan), R. Bender (Universitats
Sternwarte, Muenchen), G. Bower (NOAO), A. Dressler
(Carnegie Observatories), A. Filippenko (UC Berkeley),
K. Gebhardt (UCSC), R. Green (NOAO), C. Grillmair
(SIRTF Science Center), L. Ho (Carnegie Observatories),
J. Kormendy (U. Hawaii), T. Lauer (NOAO), J. Magorrian
(Cambridge U.), S. Tremaine (Princeton).
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