Aaron Parsons
Assistant Professor of Astronomy
PhD 2009 (UC Berkeley)
Campus address and phone:
B-54 Hearst Field Annex
510-406-4322
Email:
Website:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~aparsons/
Specialty areas:
radio astronomy instrumentation;
cosmic reionization;
digital signal processing;
experimental cosmology;
formation and evolution of large-scale cosmic structure (baryon acoustic oscillations and dark energy)
Research projects:
- Precision Array to Probe the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER)
- BAO Broadband And Broadbeam (BAOBAB)
- Center for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER)
- Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA)
Biography:
I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Astronomy Department and a member of the UC Berkeley Radio Astronomy Laboratory. I received an A.S. from Colorado Northwestern Community College in 1998 while in high school, and a B.A. from Harvard in 2002 in physics and mathematics working with Paul Horowitz. I worked as a development engineer at the Space Sciences Laboratory from 2002 to 2004 with Dan Werthimer. I received my Ph.D. in 2009 from UC Berkeley working with Don Backer, spending the years from 2007 to 2009 as a predoctoral researcher at Arecibo Observatory. I spent two years as an NSF postdoctoral fellow and honorary Charles Towns fellow at UC Berkeley before joining the faculty here at Berkeley in 2011.