Faculty: Michael Cushing
Professor
Director, Ritter Planetarium
Ph.D. University of Hawai'i, 2004
Research and Teaching Interests
Before coming to the University of Toledo in 2011, he worked at Steward Observatory, NASA Ames and NASA JPL. His research focuses on the discovery and characterization of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in the solar neighborhood using ground- and spaced-based telescopes and the development of the algorithms to both reduce and analyze these data.
areas of expertise
- Low-mass stars and brown dwarfs
- Infrared astronomy and instrumentation
- Data reduction algorithms
RO1060 | 419.530.2637 | michael.cushing@utoledo.edu
View Dr. Cushing's NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) page for bibliography.