General Information - Robin Ciardullo

Education:

• Yale University (1972-1976) B.S. (Astronomy and Physics)
• UCLA (1977-1986) Ph.D. (Astronomy)

Employment

• Research Assistant, Department of Astronomy, Yale University (1976-1977)
• Teaching Associate, Department of Astronomy, UCLA (1977-1979)
• Research Associate, Department of Astronomy, UCLA (1979-1982)
• Instrument Analyst and Research Associate, Space Telescope Science Institute (1982-1985)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington (1985-1987)
• Research Associate, National Optical Astronomy Observatories (1987-1990)
• Assistant Professor, Dep't Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State University (1990-1996)
• Associate Professor, Dep't Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State University (1996-2003)
• Professor, Dep't Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State University (2003-present)

Memberships

• American Astronomical Society
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• International Astronomical Union

Awards

• National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (1992)

Publications (by topic)

• The Extragalactic Distance Scale
• Intracluster Stars
• High-Redshift Galaxies
• Planetary Nebula Central Stars
• Stellar Dynamics and Kinematics
• Chemical Abundances and Evolution
• Novae in H-alpha
• Ionized Gas in Galaxies
• Superclustering
• Other Topics

Curriculum Vitae

Web page by Robin Ciardullo ( rbc@astro.psu.edu )
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Penn State University