• Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

May 1, 2026 3:30 PM - May 1, 2026 4:30 PM
PAIS 1100

Host:

Greg Taylor

Presenter:

Ian J. M. Crossfield, Astronomer

Colloquium info coming soon

About Ian Crossfield

Prof. Crossfield leads the KU ExoLab, a research group dedicated to the discovery and characterization of nearby planetary systems.

I am an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy working at Kansas University's Department of Physics and Astronomy. My interests lie in exoplanet formation, composition, detection, and characterization, and the development of instrumentation to further those pursuits. I am currently studying extrasolar planets using both photometry and high-resolution spectroscopy from the ground and space. I have worked all over: as an assistant professor in the MIT Kavli Institute and associated Department of Physics, as an adjunct professor and postdoctoral fellow at the UC Santa Cruz Astronomy Department, for two years at UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson, for two years at the MPIA in Heidelberg, Germany and for three years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. I received my doctorate from UCLA. I once maintained an online repository of useful Python computing tools (which urgently needs to be moved to GitHub).