First name

Rogier

Last name

Windhorst

Academic unit

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Type of professor

Regents Professor

Year

2004

Bio summary

Windhorst's research is in astronomy, cosmology, galaxy formation and evolution, the cosmic dark ages and the epoch of First Light, and astronomical instrumentation. Since the early 1990's, his group has contributed significantly to unraveling the formation and evolution of distant galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope.