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: