Faculty

Jenny Bergner

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry Department

Jenny received her BS in Chemistry from the University of Virginia in 2013, followed by a PhD from Harvard University in 2019. She was a NASA Sagan postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago before joining UC Berkeley as an Assistant Professor in 2023.Read more about Jenny Bergner

Josh Bloom

Professor of Astronomy
Astronomy Department

Bloom received a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from Caltech in 2002 after receiving an M. Phil in Astronomy in 1997 from Cambridge University, England. He graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with a double AB in Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics. Bloom has...Read more about Josh Bloom

Eugene Chiang

Professor of Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science
Astronomy Department
Earth and Planetary Science Department

S.B. Physics MIT (1995), PhD Astronomy Caltech (2000), Long-Term Member and Hubble Fellow IAS (2001). Eugene joined Berkeley Astronomy in 2001, and served as Department Chair from 2015-18. He works in theoretical astrophysics and is interested in all things planetary, from planet formation...Read more about Eugene Chiang

Courtney Dressing

Associate Professor of Astronomy; Head Undergraduate Advisor
Astronomy Department

I’m an observational astronomer focused on detecting and characterizing planetary systems orbiting nearby stars. I use telescopes on the ground and in space to search for planets, probe their atmospheres, measure their masses, and constrain their bulk compositions. I am curious about how planets...Read more about Courtney Dressing

Alexei V. Filippenko

Distinguished Professor of Astronomy
Astronomy Department

Alex Filippenko is a Richard & Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences at UC Berkeley. His accomplishments, documented in more than 1120 research papers, have been recognized by several major prizes, including a share of both the Gruber Cosmology Prize (2007) and...Read more about Alexei V. Filippenko

Raymond Jeanloz

Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, Astronomy
Astronomy Department
Earth and Planetary Science Department

Raymond Jeanloz uses mineral physics to understand the properties, dynamics and evolution of planetary interiors. His group has pioneered combining diamond anvils with laser-driven compression to provide laboratory access to atomic-scale pressures (0.3 Gbar) and new states of chemical bonding (“...Read more about Raymond Jeanloz

Steven Kahn

Dean of Mathematical & Physical Sciences; Professor of Physics, Astronomy
Astronomy Department
Physics Department
Math Department

Prof. Kahn received his undergraduate degree in Physics from Columbia University in 1975, and his PhD in Physics from UC Berkeley in 1980. He was: Center Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (1980-82), Asst. Prof. of Physics at Columbia (1982-1984), Asst...Read more about Steven Kahn

Daniel Kasen

Associate Professor of Physics, Astronomy
Astronomy Department
Physics Department

Prof. Kasen received his B.S. from Stanford University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley. Prior to returning to Cal, he was the Alan C. Davis fellow at Johns Hopkins University and a Hubble fellow at UC Santa Cruz. He joined the Berkeley astronomy faculty in 2010, jointly...Read more about Daniel Kasen

Jessica Lu

Associate Professor of Astronomy; Astronomy Department Chair
Astronomy Department

Jessica Lu received her undergraduate degree in physics from the MIT in 2000. She worked as a software engineer in silicon valley for 3 years before returning to academia to pursue her PhD in astronomy and astrophysics at UCLA, which was granted in 2008. After completing her PhD, she was awarded...Read more about Jessica Lu

Wenbin Lu

Assistant Professor
Astronomy Department

Lu received a PhD degree in Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018 and bachelor in physics from Peking University in 2013. Before joining UC Berkeley, he was a Burke Fellow at Caltech (2018-2021) and then a

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Chung-Pei Ma

Judy Chandler Webb Professor in Physical Sciences, Professor of Astronomy, Professor of Physics
Astronomy Department
Physics Department

Chung-Pei Ma is the Judy Chandler Webb Professor in Physical Sciences and Professor of Astronomy and of Physics at UC Berkeley. She received both her undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining the Berkeley faculty in 2002, she was a...Read more about Chung-Pei Ma

Raffaella Margutti

Associate Professor of Astronomy and Physics
Astronomy Department
Physics Department

Raffaella Margutti received her undergraduate degree in Astrophysics in 2006 (magna cum laude), and her PhD in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Milano Bicocca in 2010. Margutti is a Sloan Fellow in Physics (2019), a CIFAR global scholar

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Burkhard Militzer

CIPS Director; Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, Astronomy
Astronomy Department
Earth and Planetary Science Department

I was born 1970 in Dresden, Germany. I received a diploma in physics from the Humboldt University at Berlin in 1996, and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. After three years as post-doc at Lawrence Livermore National

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Aaron Parsons

Associate Professor of Astronomy; RAL Director; Equity and Diversity Officer
Astronomy Department

I am currently an Associate Professor in the Astronomy Department and director 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...Read more about Aaron Parsons

Uros Seljak

Professor of Physics, Astronomy
Astronomy Department
Physics Department

Uros Seljak joined Berkeley as a faculty in 2008, jointly appointed with LBNL. He received his B.S. in 1989 and M.S. in 1991 from Ljubljana University, Slovenia and his PhD in 1995 from MIT. He was a Smithsonian Fellow at Harvard-Smithsonian Center

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Daniel Stark

Professor of Astronomy
Astronomy Department

Daniel comes to UC Berkeley after spending 12 years as a professor at the University of Arizona. He completed his PhD at Caltech in 2008, then moved to the University of Cambridge as an STFC Research Fellow for 3 years. He spent 2 years as a Hubble Fellow at the University of Arizona...Read more about Daniel Stark

Dan Weisz

Associate Professor of Astronomy; Head Graduate Advisor
Astronomy Department

Dan Weisz received his undergraduate degrees in physics and astronomy at UC Berkeley in 2004 and his PhD in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Minnesota in 2010. Following his PhD, Dan was a postdoctoral researcher for the...Read more about Dan Weisz

Martin White

Professor of Physics, Astronomy
Astronomy Department
Physics Department

Martin White joined Berkeley as a faculty member in 2001. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Adelaide and his PhD in 1992 from Yale and was a postdoctoral fellow at Berkeley and Chicago. Subsequently he served as a faculty member at UIUC and Harvard before joining the Berkeley...Read more about Martin White

Emeriti Faculty

Adjunct Faculty