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Rose Finn

Astronomer | Professor

Who am I ?

Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Siena College

Personal Info

My Expertise

Observational Astronomy

extragalactic, star formation in galaxies


Teaching

undergraduate physics and astronomy


Python

mostly astro related programming & visualization


My Projects

Virgo Filament Survey

How do filaments affect the gas content and star-formation in galaxies?

Publications

Halpha cutouts and Halpha coadds

Local Cluster Survey

looking at how environment affects the size of the dust disk and the integrated SFR in nearby clusters

Publications

Undergraduate ALFALFA Team

Halpha imaging of about 50 nearby groups and clusters.

UAT project Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation. I am helping to calculate stellar masses for the sample.

Some Publications

WISEsize

We are going to measure the size of the dust disk for A LOT of galaxies in the nearby universe. Stay tuned for more...

Press Release through KU

ESO Distant Cluster Survey

studying all aspects of a sample of optically-selected 0.5 < z < 0.8 galaxy clusters

Publications

Breyo Observatory

This is our kick-ass campus observatory which houses a 0.7-m Planewave telescope.

Telescope Data

My Resume

Professional Experience

2005 - Present

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Siena College


2003 - 2005

NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Massachusetts


1994 - 1997

Science Teacher

Albany Academy for Girls

Education

1997 - 2003

Ph.D. Astronomy

University of Arizona


1992 - 1994

M.S. in Physics

Dartmouth College


1988 - 1992

B.A. in Astronomy-Physics

University of Virginia

Skills

Procrastination
Python
Grading

Languages

English
French

A lot

Hours Worked

Some

Projects Finished

A few

Happy Students

14k

Cups of Coffee