GROWTH - Key Persons


Alessandra Corsi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy ( Texas Tech University, USA )

Anna Franckowiak

Job Titles:
  • Staff Scientist ( DESY / Humbolt University of Berlin, Germany )

Ariel Goobar

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Stockholm University, Sweden )

Beth Willman

Haverford College, USA Beth is an Associate Professor of astronomy and the Deputy Director for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).

Brad Cenko

Job Titles:
  • Research Astrophysicist ( NASA ) and Asst Professor ( University of Maryland, College Park, USA )

Bryan Penprase

Job Titles:
  • Associate Member Professor of Astronomy ( Soka University, USA )

Chow-Choong Ngeow

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor ( National Central University, Taiwan )

Christopher Copperwheat


Daniel Perley


David Buckley


David Drew

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Education
David Drew is a Professor of Education and former Dean of Educational Studies.

David Kaplan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor ( University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA )

Eamonn Keogh

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Computer Science
Eamonn is a Professor of Computer Science who is well known for his contributions to time series analysis and machine learning.

Eran Ofek

Job Titles:
  • Arye Dissentshik Career Development Chair ( Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel )

Eric Bellm

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor ( University of Washington, USA )

Gadiyara C Anupama

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India )

Heather Steele

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member

Iain Steele


Iva Kostadinova

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member
  • Media Contact
  • Communications and Program Coordinator ( Caltech )

Mansi Kasliwal

Job Titles:
  • PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR / Assistant Professor ( Caltech, USA )

Marek Kowalski

Job Titles:
  • Leading Scientist ( Humbolt University of Berlin, Germany )

Mark Phillips

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director for Magellan
Mark is the Associate Director for Magellan, the Director for Las Campanas Observatory, and a world-renowned supernova expert.

Matt Darnley


Melissa Hayes-Gehrke


Nobuyuki Kawai

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics ( Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan )

Paolo Mazzali


Patrick Brady

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Physics
Patrick is a Professor of Physics and he sit on the executive committee for advanced LIGO.

Paul Groot

Job Titles:
  • Head of the Department of Astrophysics at Radboud University
Paul is the head of the Department of Astrophysics at Radboud University and the PI of BlackGEM, the southern counterpart to ZTF.

Przemek Wozniak


Robert Quimby

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor ( San Diego State University, USA )

Stuart Vogel

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Radio Astronomy ( University of Maryland, College Park, USA )

Tara Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor ( University of Sydney, Australia )

Thomas Prince

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Physics ( Caltech, USA )

Varun Bhalerao

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor ( IIT Bombay, India )