Meet the Team
VENUS is led by world-leading experts spanning gravitational lensing, high-redshift galaxies, stellar populations, black holes, and time-domain astrophysics. Key roles and contacts are listed below.
Principal Investigators
VENUS Key Architects & Builders
VENUS Advisory Committee
Casey Papovich
Texas A&M University
Pratika Dayal
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Rachel Bezanson
University of Pittsburgh
Tommaso Treu
University of California, Los Angeles
John Chisholm
University of Texas, Austin
Maruša Bradač
University of Ljubljana
All Team Members
- Abdurro'uf Abdurro'uf (Indiana University)
- Roberto G. Abraham (University of Toronto)
- Ana Acebron (Universidad de Cantabria)
- Angela Adamo* (Stockholm University)
- Aadya Agrawal (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- Hollis Akins^ (University of Texas at Austin)
- Joseph Allingham (Ben Gurion University)
- Ricardo Amorin (Universidad de La Serena)
- Jacqueline Antwi-Danso (University of Toronto)
- Pablo Arrabal Haro (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
- Yoshihisa Asada* (University of Toronto)
- Duncan Austin (University of Manchester)
- Hakim Atek (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
- Micaela Bagley (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
- Franz E. Bauer (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
- Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh)
- Rachana Bhatawdekar (European Space Astronomy Centre)
- Danielle Berg (University of Texas at Austin)
- Maruša Bradač (University of Ljubljana)
- Larry Bradley (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Gabriel Brammer^ (University of Copenhagen)
- Mateusz Bronikowski (University of Nova Gorica)
- Volker Bromm (University of Texas at Austin)
- Caitlin M. Casey (University of Texas at Austin)
- John Chisholm^ (University of Texas at Austin)
- Adélaïde Claeyssens (Stockholm University)
- Dan Coe*^ (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Christopher Conselice (University of Manchester)
- Dave Coulter (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Liang Dai (University of California – Berkeley)
- Pratika Dayal (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
- Christa DeCoursey (University of Arizona)
- Guillaume Desprez (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)
- Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky* (University of Geneva)
- Jose M. Diego (Instituto de Física de Cantabria)
- Mark Dickinson (NOIRLab)
- Eiichi Egami* (University of Arizona)
- Daniel J. Eisenstein (Harvard University)
- Andreas Faisst (California Institute of Technology)
- Gavin Farley^ (University of Toronto)
- Qinyue Fei* (University of Toronto)
- Giordano Felicioni (University of Ljubljana)
- Daniel Fistos (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Steven L. Finkelstein*^ (University of Texas at Austin)
- Brenda Frye (University of Arizona)
- Yoshinobu Fudamoto (Chiba University)
- Seiji Fujimoto*^ (University of Toronto)
- Lukas J. Furtak* (University of Texas at Austin)
- Miriam Golubchik (Ben Gurion University)
- Mauro González-Otero (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
- Jorge González López (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
- Norman Grogin (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Timothy S. Hamilton (Shawnee State University)
- Yuichi Harikane (University of Tokyo)
- Takuya Hashimoto (University of Tsukuba)
- Nimish P. Hathi (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Bunyo Hatsukade (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
- Henry C. Ferguson*^ (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Tiger Hsiao (University of Texas at Austin)
- Kohei Inayoshi* (Pekin University)
- Kartheik Iyer (University of Toronto — Dunlap Institute)
- Yolanda Jiménez-Teja* (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía)
- Shardha Jogee (University of Texas at Austin)
- Jon Judež (University of Ljubljana)
- Intae Jung (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
- Suriya Kalirai (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
- Jeyhan Kartaltepe (Rochester Institute of Technology)
- Gourav Khullar (University of Washington)
- Anton M. Koekemoer^ (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Nimisha Kumari (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Kirsten K. Knudsen (Chalmers University)
- Kotaro Kohno (University of Tokyo)
- Tomokazu Kiyota^ (University of Tokyo)
- Yuki Komatsu (University of Tokyo)
- Youwen Kong (University of Tokyo)
- Vasily Kokorev*^ (University of Texas at Austin)
- Claudia Lagos (Universidad de Chile)
- Ivo Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology)
- Conor Larison (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Rebecca L. Larson (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Gene Leung (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Aviad Levis (University of Toronto)
- Paulo A. A. Lopes (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
- Ray A. Lucas (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Georgios Magdis (Technical University of Denmark)
- Danilo Marchesini (Tufts University)
- Vladan Markov (University of Ljubljana)
- Nicholas Martis (University of Ljubljana)
- Jorryt Matthee (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
- Ashish Kumar Meena (Ben Gurion University)
- Rosi Mérida (Saint Mary's University)
- Matteo Messa (INAF – Bologna)
- Mabel Stephenson (University of Texas at Austin)
- Madi VanWyngarden (University of Arizona)
- Julian B. Muñoz (University of Texas at Austin)
- Adam Muzzin (York University)
- Rohan Naidu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Gautham Narayan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- Kimihiko Nakajima (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
- Minami Nakane^ (University of Tokyo)
- Shun Nishida (Chiba University)
- Gaël Noirot (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Yoshiaki Ono (University of Tokyo)
- Masamune Oguri (Chiba University)
- Masami Ouchi^ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
- Rafael Ortiz (Arizona State University)
- Casey Papovich (Texas A&M University)
- Massimo Pascale (University of California – Berkeley)
- Richard Pan^ (Tufts University)
- Amanda Pagul (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Peter Phan (University of Toronto)
- Justin Pierel*^ (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Vesna Pirc Jevšenak (University of Ljubljana)
- Marc Postman (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Sedona Price (University of Pittsburgh)
- Tom Resseguier (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Armin Rest (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Johan P. Richard* (Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon)
- Massimo Ricotti (University of Maryland)
- Jane R. Rigby (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
- Gregor Rihtaršič (University of Ljubljana)
- Luke Robbins^ (Tufts University)
- Daniel Schaerer (University of Geneva)
- Raffaella Schneider (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
- William Sheu (University of California – Los Angeles)
- Kazuhiro Shimasaku (University of Tokyo)
- Matt Siebert (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Joshua Speagle (University of Toronto)
- Louis-Gregory Strolger (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Fengwu Sun^ (Harvard University)
- Anthony Taylor (University of Texas at Austin)
- Kana Takechi^ (University of Tokyo)
- Sune Toft (University of Copenhagen)
- Tommaso Treu (University of California – Los Angeles)
- Roberta Tripodi (University of Ljubljana)
- James Trussler (Harvard University)
- Akiyoshi Tsujita (University of Tokyo)
- Hiroya Umeda (University of Tokyo)
- Francesco M. Valentino* (Technical University of Denmark)
- Eros Vanzella (INAF – Bologna)
- Alessandra Venditti (University of Texas at Austin)
- Darach Watson (University of Copenhagen)
- John R. Weaver (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Andrea Weibel (University of Geneva)
- Brian Welch (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
- Kate Whitaker (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- Chris J. Willott^ (NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics)
- Rogier A. Windhorst (Arizona State University)
- Yi Xu (University of Copenhagen)
- Hiroto Yanagisawa^ (University of Tokyo)
- Erik Zackrisson (Uppsala Astronomical Observatory)
- Anita Zanella (INAF – Roma)
- Adi Zitrin (Ben Gurion University)
* Data or Science Working Group Leaders
^ Data Working Group Members