Charles Liu

College of Staten Island, CUNY

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

212-496-3579

Alt Phone:

718-982-2817

I am an associate professor of astrophysics, and director of The Verrazano School (a local honors school-within-a-school thing) at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

I am also an Associate in Astrophysics with the Department of Astrophysics and Hayden Planetarium at the Museum.

I used to be a Research Scientist at, and have a soft spot for, Barnard College and its Dept of Physics and Astronomy.

There are some very cool folks at the Department of Astronomy at Columbia University.

Research Interests

I work primarily on observational galaxy evolution, primarily the star formation histories of field galaxies. This includes the spectrophotometric study of starburst galaxies, post-starburst objects, and colliding, merging, and interacting galaxies. I've also dabbled in quasar-hunting, strictly avocationally.
A large project I'm active in is a Hubble Space Telescope Treasury Program called COSMOS.

Publications

Charles Liu. The Handy Astronomy Answer Book, Third Edition. Visible Ink Press, 2013.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Robert Irion, and Charles Liu. One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos. Joseph Henry Press, 1999.