Eugene Chiang
Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Earth and Planetary Sciences

B.A. MIT ’95
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology ’00

Expertise: The origin and evolution of planetary systems, both extra-solar and solar; extra-solar planetary dynamics, planetary rings, protoplanetary disks and the Kuiper Belt.

Chung-Pei Ma
Associate Professor of Astronomy

B.S. MIT ’87
Ph.D. MIT ’93

Expertise: Theoretical problems in cosmology with close ties to observations; physical processes in the early Universe shortly after the Big Bang.

Eliot Quataert
Assistant Professor of Astronomy

B.S. MIT ’95
Ph.D. Harvard University ’99

Expertise: Black holes and the accretion of matter onto black holes.

Martin White
Professor of Physics and Astronomy

B.S. University of Adelaide ’89
Ph.D. Yale University ’92

Expertise: Theoretical cosmology, including the cosmic microwave background and structure formation; numerical simulations including hydrodynamics; neutrino astrophysics and the early universe.