Eliot Quataert
Professor of Astronomy & Physics
UC Berkeley
Astronomy
Department
601 Campbell Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone: 510-642-3792
Fax: 510-642-3411
Research
I am a theoretical astrophysicist with interests in a wide variety of problems, including black holes, high energy astrophysics, plasma astrophysics, and galaxy formation. Current areas of research include accretion onto black holes, supernovae explosions and gamma-ray bursts, the formation and evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes, and the dynamics of gas in starbursts, active galactic nuclei, and galaxy clusters.
I am the director of Berkeley's Theoretical Astrophysics Center.
My publications can be found on the web here at the astro-ph website or here at the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) website.
A copy of my curriculum vitae is available here.
Here is a review on Black Hole Accretion for Science magazine.
Although I greatly enjoy theoretical physics research, I have a confession ....
(I am not yet a member of this dept ...)
Talks
Feedback from Radiation Pressure during Galaxy FormationJobs/Students
Postdoctoral: The Theoretical Astrophysics Center at UC Berkeley has several prize postdoctoral fellowships.
Graduate & Undergraduate: I am happy to talk with interested students at any time.
Previous Undergraduate Students: Naveed Ahmad (now working for an NGO)
Current Graduate Students: Linda Strubbe, Jackson Debuhr, Josh Burkart, Josh Shiode, Mike McCourt, Siva DarbhaTeaching
Astro 7A: Introduction to Astrophysics
Astro 252: Stellar Structure and Evolution
Astro 202: Astrophysical Gas Dynamics
Astro 250: Special Topics in Astrophysics: Accretion Disks
Astro 292: Special Topics in Astrophysics: The Formation and Evolution of Massive Black Holes
Astro 24: Black Holes: The Science Behind the Science Fiction
Personal
I was born in Santa Monica, California on June 19, 1973, lived for almost 12 years in Houston,Texas, and spent my high school years in Vestal, New York (upstate near the border between NY and PA). I received my B.S. in Physics from MIT in 1995 (carrying out research with Pawan Kumar) and my Ph. D. in Astronomy from Harvard University in 1999 (under the supervision of Ramesh Narayan). I was a postdoc in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study for 2 years before coming to Berkeley in 2001.
I live in Berkeley with Bethany Hoffman.