Faculty
Ian Czekala
Email: ipc5094@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-6841
Office Address: 415 Davey Laboratory
Title: Assistant Professor and ICDS Co-Hire
Unit: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Webpage: https://science.psu.edu/astro/people/ipc5094
Research Interests:
- Planet formation
- Protoplanetary disks
- Radio interferometry
- Synthesis imaging
- High resolution spectroscopy
- Radial velocity
- Hierarchical Bayesian inference
- Machine learning
About:
I am an assistant professor in the Astronomy and Astrophysics department at Pennsylvania State University, located in State College, PA, USA. I am also an ICDS Co-Hire of Penn State’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS). I am affiliated with Penn State’s Center for Astrostatistics and Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds.
Research:
My research interests include planet formation, protoplanetary disks, radio interferometry, synthesis imaging, high resolution spectroscopy, radial velocity, hierarchical Bayesian inference, and machine learning, among other topics. Here is a recent press release from NRAO highlighting some of our work on planet formation in circumbinary disk systems: