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Department Chair: Jonathan Fortney Department Manager: Alyssa Danielli
Vice Chair: Brant Robertson Graduate Advisor: Brandon Day
Graduate Program Director: Andrew Skemer Department Assistant: Kali Lucas
Undergraduate Program Director: Connie Rockosi Astronomy Program Coordinator: Lani Skelton
Ryan J Foley
  • Pronouns he, him, his, his, himself
  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Division Physical & Biological Sciences Division
  • Department
    • Astronomy & Astrophysics Department
  • Phone
    831-459-2835
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 345
  • Mail Stop UCO / Lick Observatory
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Big Data
  • Advisees, Grad Students, Researchers Kyle Warren Davis, Ravjit Kaur, César Rojas-Bravo, Prasiddha Arunachalam, Phillip Joseph Macias, Kishore Chandra Patra, Kirsty Louise Taggart

Research Interests

Time-domain astronomy and astrophysical transients

Gravitational-wave sources and their electromagnetic counterparts

Supernova cosmology, Hubble constant, and dark energy

Honors, Awards and Grants

Santa Cruz NEXTies Honoree (Wildcard Category)

Kavli Fellow

Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering

Sloan Research Fellow

Aspen Center for Physics Block Award

UC Berkeley Uhl Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement

Selected Publications

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/public-libraries/cYHVrFDlQCyjUQ1JMGX_ig