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Mario Mateo is the Ralph B. Baldwin Professor of Astronomy at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on Cosmology, Extragalactic and Galactic studies, and Instrumentation. He has been involved in observing stellar motions and assessing the mass distribution in nearby galaxies, especially dark mass. Mateo designed and built fiber spectrographs for Magellan, which analyze a significant number of astronomical targets, including the Michigan/Magellan Fiber System (M2FS). This system is crucial for studying the chemical composition, mass, temperature, and motion of celestial objects. Mateo's research has notably challenged the cold dark matter paradigm through studies of mass distribution and stellar speed distributions in dwarf galaxies. He has developed velocity dispersion profiles based on a sample of stellar speeds 100 times larger than previously available. Additionally, Mateo is leading efforts to develop fiber deployment strategies for large-scale spectroscopic surveys aiming to explore dwarf galaxies in the Local Group.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science