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Core Faculty
Kirk Barrow
Assistant Professor
kbarrow@illinois.edu
Bryan Dunne
Teaching Assistant Professor
bdunne@illinois.edu
Brian D. Fields
Professor
bdfields@illinois.edu
Decker French
Assistant Professor
deckerkf@illinois.edu
Charles F. Gammie
Professor
gammie@illinois.edu
Athol J Kemball
Professor
akemball@illinois.edu
Xin Liu
Associate Professor
xinliuxl@illinois.edu
Leslie W Looney
Director - Laboratory for Astronomical Imaging, Professor
lwl@illinois.edu
Telemachos Ch Mouschovias
Professor
tchm@illinois.edu
Gautham Narayan
Associate Professor
gsn@illinois.edu
Paul Ricker
Professor
pmricker@illinois.edu
Yue Shen
Professor
shenyue@illinois.edu
Joaquin Vieira
Professor
jvieira@illinois.edu
Amanda Winans
Instructor
ajwinans@illinois.edu
Tony Wong
Chair, Professor
wongt@illinois.edu
Lisa Young
Lecturer
lmy@illinois.edu
Affiliate and Research Faculty
jdong14@illinois.edu
Peter J. Adshead
Associate Professor of Physics
adshead@illinois.edu
Robert J Brunner
Faculty Affiliate
bigdog@illinois.edu
Matias Carrasco Kind
Research Assistant Professor
mcarras2@illinois.edu
Patrick I Draper
Associate Professor of Physics
pdraper@illinois.edu
Siegfried Eggl
Affiliate Faculty
eggl@illinois.edu
Jeffrey P Filippini
Associate Professor of Physics
jpf@illinois.edu
Robert A Gruendl
Research Associate Professor
gruendl@illinois.edu
Gilbert Holder
Professor of Physics
gholder@illinois.edu
Luke Leisman
Visiting Internship Project Developer
lleisman@illinois.edu
Felipe Menanteau
Research Associate Professor
felipe@illinois.edu
Stuart L. Shapiro
Professor of Physics
slshapir@illinois.edu
Jessie F Shelton
Associate Professor of Physics
sheltonj@illinois.edu
Matthew J Turk
Assistant Professor of Information Sciences
mjturk@illinois.edu
Helvi Witek
Assistant Professor of Physics
hwitek@illinois.edu
Dr. Nicolas Yunes
Professor of Physics
nyunes@illinois.edu
Adjunct Faculty
Eliu Antonio Huerta Escudero
Adjunct Research Associate Professor
elihu@illinois.edu
Benjamin D Wandelt
Adjunct Professor
bwandelt@illinois.edu
Emeritus/Emerita and Retired Faculty
You-Hua Chu
Professor Emerita
yhchu@illinois.edu
Richard M Crutcher
Professor Emeritus
crutcher@illinois.edu
Helene R Dickel Phd
Professor Emerita
h-dickel@illinois.edu
John R Dickel
Professor Emeritus
j-dickel@illinois.edu
ICKO IBEN Jr.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
i-iben1@illinois.edu
Frederick Lamb
Professor Emeritus
fkl@illinois.edu
Susan A Lamb
Associate Professor (retired)
slamb@illinois.edu
Edmund C Sutton
Associate Professor (retired)
ecsutton@illinois.edu
Jon J Thaler
Professor Emeritus
jjt@illinois.edu
Laird A Thompson
Professor Emeritus
lthomps@illinois.edu
Ronald F Webbink
Professor Emeritus
rwebbink@illinois.edu