Staff Directory

• Very-High-Energy (VHE) Galactic sources detected by VERITAS
  • Supernova remnants 
• Development of next-generation gamma-ray instruments
  • Ground-based IACTs
  • Schwarzchild-Couder Telescope
  • MeV Mission GRAMS (Gamma-Ray and Anti-Matter Spectrometer)
• Electronics and readout systems 
  • Working on DACQ readout

Experiments: VERITAS, pSCT, CTA, GRAMS

Research interests

• Ground-based Very-High-Energy gamma-ray astronomy

• Morphological and spectral analysis of TeV-bright supernova remnants, extended Galactic sources, pulsar wind nebulae

• Galactic X-ray astronomy

• Optics and alignment Schwarzschild-Couder telescope

• Simulation studies of Cherenkov telescopes 

• Data Analysis for gamma-ray astronomy

Experiments: pSCT, CTA and VERITAS

Research interests

   •Active Galactic Nuclei

   •Extragalactic Background Light

   •Blazar luminosity function and Extragalactic gamma-ray background

   •Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources

   •Galactic sources, pulsar wind nebulae

   •Experimental Astrophysics: Ground-based Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes

Experiments: STACEE, VERITAS, CTA, Fermi

• Very-High-Energy (VHE) Galactic sources, Supernova remnants, Pulsar Wind Nebulae
• PeVatrons 
• Dark accelerators
• UHE sources discovered by LHAASO
  • VERITAS studies of LHAASO and HAWC sources
  • NuSTAR and XMM studies of LHAASO PeVatron candidates
• Analysis techniques for the extended sourced detected by VERITAS

Experiments: VERITAS, NuSTAR, XMM, Chandra, Fermi-LAT

Research interests and work

• Multimessenger astronomy
• Gamma-ray transients
  • Binary neutron star mergers
  • Fast radio bursts
• Beyond the standard model physics
  • Axion-like particles
• Analysis techniques for the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope

Experiments: VERITAS, CTA

Research Interests:

• Probing the physics of particle acceleration at shocks and in jets to understand the conditions that shape the resulting particle spectrum and its maximum energy
• Studying the origins and propagation of Galactic and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays
• Exploring the potential of multi-messenger (photon, neutrino, cosmic ray, and gravitational wave) and multi-wavelength observations to understand the nature of extreme environments in astrophysics
• Searching for transients and new phenomena in time-domain astronomy
• Understanding the nature of dark matter via indirect observations of its annihilation or decay
• Developing new experimental techniques for particle astrophysics, such as the Schwarzschild-Couder telescope design for imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes
• Applying machine learning to data analysis problems in gamma-ray astronomy and particle astrophysics