Zeljko Ivezic
University of Washington, USA
Zeljko Ivezic is a Professor in the Astronomy Department at the University
of Washington. He holds a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Kentucky.
His research interests are in detection, analysis, and interpretation of
electromagnetic emission from astronomical objects, and he has published
studies on asteroids, the Milky Way structure, and multiwavelength
properties of stars, galaxies, and quasars. He is also interested in
radiative transfer and is engaged in studies of dusty environments around
young and old stars, and active galactic nuclei. He has coauthored
over 200 refereed publications, with a cumulative citation count of
over 20 000. He is coauthor of the radiative transfer code DUSTY, and
the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog. During his seven years
in Princeton, he earned the status of SDSS “builder” (sdss.org) for his
software development. Zeljko currently serves as the Project Scientist for
LSST, a next generation survey (lsst.org).
Biography Updated on 12 February 2008
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