星系動物園

科學團隊

Chris Lintott - 計畫主持人: 天文學家, 牛津大學
組織宇宙動物園合作計畫並從事星系形成與演化的研究；尤其對活躍星系核和星系併合的影響特別感興趣。閒暇時也充當行星搜捕手，曾擔任過BBC天文科普電視節目"Sky at Night"的主持人，主題是夜空。會打網球。

Karen Masters - Project Scientist: Astronomer, Haverford College and University of Portsmouth
Interested in spiral galaxies of all kinds, red has always been her favourite colour. She's working to disentangle the 'true' red spirals, from those that are reddened because we see them edge on, and along the way learn about interstellar dust, and the nature of red spirals themselves. Bars also a speciality.

Brooke Simmons - Deputy Project Scientist: Astronomer, Lancaster University
Works on understanding why and how galaxies grow, especially in tandem with their central supermassive black holes. Also interested in the changing sky and the changing Earth.

Steven Bamford - Astronomer, University of Nottingham
Works on figuring out what makes galaxies look the way they do: how they formed and why they change as they get older and move to new cosmic locations. When not busy working on science or doing his bit to help run the Zooniverse, he is usually to be found entertaining his two young children or sailing a boat.

Bill Keel - Astronomer, University of Alabama
Author of 'The Road to Galaxy Formation' and 'The Sky at Einstein's Feet'. With research interests in galaxy formation and evolution, dust content of galaxies, and active galactic nuclei, he couldn't stay away when Galaxy Zoo got started.

Carie Cardamone - Astronomer, Tufts University
An educator and astronomer, studying the Zoo's green peas, interested in understanding why galaxies grow they way they do. She's very enthusiastic about engaging the broader public in scientific research and the nature of science.

Meg Urry - Physicist, Yale University
Works on supermassive black holes (growth history, unification, relativistic jets, blazars) and their interplay with galaxies. In her spare time, she writes for CNN.com and works to increase the participation of women and minorities in science.

Kevin Casteels - Astronomer, University of Victoria
Interested in galaxy evolution and morphologies, specifically how they are affected by mergers and interactions. Kevin is currently working with the makers of the Starry Night astronomy software, helping to develop new astronomy apps and keep the systems running! In his spare time he is also a SCUBA instructor and loves the great outdoors.

Bob Nichol - Cosmologist, University of Portsmouth
An astronomer, astrophysicist and cosmologist with interests in computer science and statistics. A senior member (or 'Builder') of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the most ambitious digital survey of the sky ever undertaken. A long suffering supporter of Manchester City, suffering no more.

Lucy Fortson - Astrophysicist, University of Minnesota
Interested in galaxy evolution, black holes and the jets of material beaming from the centers of active galactic nuclei. Started the Zooniverse effort at the Adler Planetarium, now bringing the light to the University of Minnesota. On the odd weekend, when she's not preparing lecture or writing grants, Lucy can be found hanging out with her husband and son at one of Minneapolis' fine dining establishments.

Peter Maksym - Astronomer, University of Alabama
Interested in the un-lives and behaviors of black holes and their habitats, amongst other things. He's currently working on analysis of the Voorwerpjes ("little Voorwerps") but can also be found looking for hapless stars getting ripped to shreds.

Boris Häußler - Astronomer, European Southern Observatory Chile
An expert on analysing Hubble Space Telescope images and automatic morphology methods.

Sugata Kaviraj - Astronomer, University of Hertfordshire and University of Oxford
Works on the formation and evolution of galaxies.

Jordan Raddick - Science Education and Outreach Coordinator, Johns Hopkins University
A science writer and educator, creator of the science projects on the SDSS SkyServer web site, and an avid science fiction reader and writer. Jordan wishes he could visit galaxies in their natural habitat.

Ivy Wong - Astronomer, ICRAR/Perth
A Super Science Fellow in Australia, Ivy studies why galaxies start and stop forming stars, how they grow supermassive black holes in their centre, and why they look like they do today, especially their radio properties. Project Scientist for Radio Galaxy Zoo

Edmond Cheung - Astronomer, Kavli IPMU
Studies how galaxy structures such as bars and bulges affect galaxy evolution. Also likes to sit in bars.

Becky Smethurst - Astronomer, University of Nottingham
Research fellow working on Bayesian methods to determine star formation histories of galaxies.

Melanie Galloway - Astronomer, Instructor, Hamline University, Minnesota
Visiting post-doc at UMN studying the roles AGN and morphology play in galaxy evolution. When she's not writing code and reading papers, she spends an odd amount of time training with a sword.

Coleman Krawczyk - Astronomer, University of Portsmouth
A postdoctoral researcher at the University of Portsmouth, UK. With a background in astrophysics, he is currently working as a data scientist for the Zooniverse. In particular he is working on general purpose aggregation tools.

Sandor Kruk - Astronomer, European Space Agency
Research Fellow at ESA interested in the visual and automated measures of galaxy morphology and peculiar galaxies.

Mike Walmsley - Astronomer, University of Oxford
PhD student. Applying machine learning for science.

Lucy Newnham - Astronomer, University of Portsmouth
PhD student at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation in Portsmouth, working on HI morphology of strongly barred galaxies.

Tim Lingard - Astronomer, University of Portsmouth
PhD student at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation in Portsmouth, working on photometric galaxy modelling and human-computer interaction.

Claudia Scarlata - Astronomer, University of Minnesota
An expert in automated morphology measures, now working on efforts to combine machine learning and human classification.

Lee Kelvin - Astronomer, Liverpool John Moores University
Researcher.

Hugh Dickinson - Astronomer, University of Minnesota
Postdoctoral Researcher, recent convert from gamma-ray astronomy working on novel computational methods as applied to Galaxy Zoo and other Zooniverse projects.

Zooniverse Development Team

Brian Carstensen
Brian is a web developer working on the Zooniverse family of projects at the Adler Planetarium. Brian has a degree in graphic design from Columbia College in Chicago, and worked in that field for a number of years before finding a niche in web development.

Ed Paget
Ed somehow went from studying Film at Northwestern University to joining the Zooniverse team as a software developer. Along the way, he picked up a little programming. In his spare time, he enjoys photography, chess, fencing, and growing his beard.

Michael Parrish
Michael has a degree in Computer Science and has been working with The Zooniverse for the past three years as a Software Developer. Aside from web development; new technologies, science, AI, reptiles, and coffee tend to occupy his attention.

Retired members of the Galaxy Zoo Team

Dan Andreescu
Consultant by day, programmer and seeker of knowledge and fun by night. Avid basketball player and rookie surfer on the weekends.

Melanie Beck - Recent PhD Astronomer, UMN; Data Scientist at 3M

Ross Hart - Astronomer, University of Nottingham
PhD student at the University of Nottingham, interested in using Galaxy Zoo data to study the origins and physics behind spiral arms.

Kate Land
Added some much-missed glamour to the world of Theoretical Cosmology. Once could not sleep at night for thoughts about the early Universe, but slept during seminars instead. Now lured away by the bright lights of the City.

Jan VandenBerg
Ringleader of the IT support circus in the JHU Physics & Astronomy department.

Alainna Wonders
Tightrope walker therein.

Danny Locksmith - Volunteer Programmer
Responsible for wrestling the Galaxy Zoo 2 beta site into existence.

Phil Murray - Web Designer, Artist and Managing Director of Fingerprint Digital Media Responsible for the visual design of the Galaxy Zoo web site. Designer of www.banguniverse.com for Brian May, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott. A keen musician and lapsed tennis and soccer player.

Kevin Schawinski - Co-Founder: Astronomer, ETH Zurich
Works on the formation and evolution of galaxies and their supermassive black holes. Usually trying to get more sleep. And coffee.

Anze Slosar - Cosmologist, Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics
A theoretical physicist, who has has never sat behind a telescope, likes to drink good beer and wishes he were richer.

Daniel Darg - Astronomer, University of Oxford
Working on measuring the number and properties of galaxy mergers identified in Galaxy Zoo.

Ben Hoyle - Astronomer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Physics
While a PhD student in Portsmouth worked on connections between Google Sky and Galaxy Zoo.

Ramin Skibba - Science Writer, Former Astronomer, San Diego
Ramin led the use of marked clustering statistics and dark matter halo models to analyse the environmental dependence of Galaxy Zoo morphologies. Always keenly interested in science communication and science policy, he's shifted from research astronomy to science writing.

Edd Edmondson - Astronomer, University of Portsmouth
Zookeeper, aiding in accessing Sloan data, and general helper-outer.

Kyle Willett - Lead Data Scientist: Astronomer, University of Minnesota
Studies the roles of both morphology and environment on galaxies and their active black holes. He lead the data reduction and catalog creation from Galaxy Zoo 2 classifications, has worked on building new tools to enable independent research by citizen science volunteers and now leads efforts to include new data sets in Galaxy Zoo. In his spare time, he runs probably more than is healthy.