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Daniel Stark is a Professor in the Astronomy Department at UC Berkeley. He previously spent 12 years as a professor at the University of Arizona, where he completed a postdoctoral fellowship as a Hubble Fellow before joining the faculty in 2013. He completed his PhD at Caltech in 2008 and then moved to the University of Cambridge as an STFC Research Fellow for three years. His research focuses on the formation of galaxies, stars, and black holes, conducting observations of the high-redshift universe using a variety of large telescopes and observatories including JWST, Keck, Magellan, and ALMA. He characterizes the nature of distant galaxies and studies the impact of reionization on intergalactic hydrogen and examines nearby chemically primeval galaxies that resemble those of the early universe using electromagnetic spectrum facilities. His specialty areas include high-redshift galaxies, spectroscopy, reionization, low-mass low-metallicity galaxies, and massive star populations in early galaxies.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Teaching and conducting research in astronomy, focusing on galaxies and star formation.
University of Arizona • Tucson, AZ
Research and teachings in the field of Astronomy, specifically high redshift galaxies and black holes.
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