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

Seiji Fujimoto

PI:
Seiji Fujimoto

University of Toronto

Dan Coe

Deputy PI:
Dan Coe

Space Telescope Science Institute


VENUS Key Architects & Builders

Johan Richard

Target Selection & Lens modeling:
Johan Richard

Lyon Observatory

Gabe Brammer

NIRCam+HST:
Gabe Brammer

Cosmic DAWN Center

Vasily Kokorev

NIRCam+HST & Photometry Catalogs:
Vasily Kokorev

University of Texas, Austin

Lukas Furtak

Lens modeling:
Lukas Furtak

University of Texas, Austin

Justin Pierel

Transient:
Justin Pierel

Space Telescope Science Institute

Richard Pan

BCG/ICL modeling:
Richard Pan

Tufts University

Yoshihisa Asada

Clump extractions & MSA Design:
Yoshihisa Asada

University of Toronto

Hollis Akins

Data management:
Hollis Akins

University of Texas, Austin

Minami Nakane

Stellar Population Catalogs:
Minami Nakane

University of Tokyo

Hiroto Yanagisawa

Stellar Population Catalogs:
Hiroto Yanagisawa

University of Tokyo

Qinyue Fei

MSA design:
Qinyue Fei

University of Toronto

Fengwu Sun

Observation strategy/setup:
Fengwu Sun

Westlake University


VENUS Science Working Group Leaders

Seiji Fujimoto

High-z Galaxies & Reionization:
Seiji Fujimoto

University of Toronto

Hakim Atek

High-z Galaxies & Reionization:
Hakim Atek

Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris

Kohei Inayoshi

AGN & Little Red Dots:
Kohei Inayoshi

Peking University

Angela Adamo

Resolved Galaxies & Star Clusters:
Angela Adamo

Stockholm University

Dan Coe

Lensed Stars:
Dan Coe

Space Telescope Science Institute

Justin Pierel

Transients:
Justin Pierel

Space Telescope Science Institute

Eiichi Egami

Transients:
Eiichi Egami

University of Arizona

Harry Ferguson

Cosmology:
Harry Ferguson

Space Telescope Science Institute

Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky

Dust & Gas:
Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky

University of Geneva

Francesco Valentino

Massive & Quenched Galaxies:
Francesco Valentino

Technical University of Denmark

Yolanda Jiménez-Teja

ICL & Foreground Clusters:
Yolanda Jiménez-Teja

Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía


VENUS Advisory Committee

Casey Papovich

Casey Papovich

Texas A&M University

Pratika Dayal

Pratika Dayal

Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

Rachel Bezanson

Rachel Bezanson

University of Pittsburgh

Tommaso Treu

Tommaso Treu

University of California, Los Angeles

John Chisholm

John Chisholm

University of Texas, Austin

Maruša Bradač

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^ (Princeton University)
  • Joseph Allingham (Ben Gurion University)
  • Ricardo Amorin (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía)
  • Jacqueline Antwi-Danso (University of Toronto)
  • Yoshihisa Asada* (University of Toronto)
  • Hakim Atek* (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
  • Duncan Austin (University of Manchester)
  • Micaela Bagley (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
  • Franz E. Bauer (Universidad de Tarapacá)
  • Danielle Berg (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Vinicius Bessa (Observatório Nacional)
  • Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Rachana Bhatawdekar (European Space Astronomy Centre)
  • Maruša Bradač (University of Ljubljana)
  • Larry Bradley (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  • Gabriel Brammer^ (University of Copenhagen)
  • Volker Bromm (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Mateusz Bronikowski (University of Nova Gorica)
  • Caitlin M. Casey (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  • Chloe Cheng (Leiden University)
  • John Chisholm^ (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Adélaïde Claeyssens (Stockholm University)
  • Dan Coe*^ (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  • Christopher Conselice (University of Manchester)
  • Dave Coulter (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Liang Dai (Fudan University)
  • Pratika Dayal (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
  • Christa DeCoursey (University of Arizona)
  • Guillaume Desprez (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)
  • Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky* (University of Geneva)
  • Mark Dickinson (NOIRLab)
  • Jose M. Diego (Instituto de Física de Cantabria)
  • Eiichi Egami* (University of Arizona)
  • Daniel J. Eisenstein (Harvard University)
  • Mike Engesser (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  • Meriam Ezziati (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
  • Andreas Faisst (California Institute of Technology)
  • Gavin Farley^ (University of Toronto)
  • Qinyue Fei* (University of Toronto)
  • Giordano Felicioni (University of Ljubljana)
  • Henry C. Ferguson*^ (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  • Steven L. Finkelstein*^ (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Daniel Fistos (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  • Brenda Frye (University of Arizona)
  • Yoshinobu Fudamoto (Chiba University)
  • Seiji Fujimoto*^ (University of Toronto)
  • Lukas J. Furtak* (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Ananya Ganapathy (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Miriam Golubchik (Ben Gurion University)
  • Mauro González-Otero (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
  • Caio Moreira Goolsby (University of Manchester)
  • Norman Grogin (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  • Timothy S. Hamilton (Shawnee State University)
  • Ellie Han (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
  • Yuichi Harikane (University of Tokyo)
  • Pablo Arrabal Haro (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
  • David Harvey (EPFL)
  • Takuya Hashimoto (University of Tsukuba)
  • Nimish P. Hathi (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  • Bunyo Hatsukade (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
  • Sylvain Heurtier (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
  • Tiger Hsiao (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Kohei Inayoshi* (Peking University)
  • Kartheik Iyer (University of Toronto — Dunlap Institute)
  • Michelle Jecmen (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Vesna Pirc Jevšenak (University of Ljubljana)
  • 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)
  • Tomokazu Kiyota^ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
  • Kirsten K. Knudsen (Chalmers University)
  • Anton M. Koekemoer^ (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  • Kotaro Kohno (University of Tokyo)
  • Vasily Kokorev*^ (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Yuki Komatsu (University of Tokyo)
  • Youwen Kong (University of Tokyo)
  • Nimisha Kumari (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  • Ivo Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • Claudia Lagos (University of Western Australia)
  • 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)
  • Jorge González López (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
  • Ray A. Lucas (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  • Georgios Magdis (Technical University of Denmark)
  • Allison Man (University of British Columbia)
  • 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 (Indian Institute of Science)
  • Rosi Mérida (Saint Mary's University)
  • Matteo Messa (INAF – Bologna)
  • Thomas Moore (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  • Lamiya Mowla (Wellesley College)
  • Marcie Mun (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
  • Julian B. Muñoz (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Calla Murphy (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Adam Muzzin (York University)
  • Rohan Naidu (University of Hawai'i)
  • Kimihiko Nakajima (Kanazawa University)
  • Minami Nakane^ (University of Tokyo)
  • Gautham Narayan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  • Shun Nishida (Chiba University)
  • Holden Nix (University of Arizona)
  • Gaël Noirot (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  • Pascal Oesch (University of Geneva)
  • Masamune Oguri (Chiba University)
  • Yoshiaki Ono (University of Tokyo)
  • Rafael Ortiz (Arizona State University)
  • Masami Ouchi^ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
  • Amanda Pagul (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  • José M. Palencia (University of Toronto)
  • Richard Pan^ (Tufts University)
  • Casey Papovich (Texas A&M University)
  • Massimo Pascale (University of California – Los Angeles)
  • Peter Phan (University of Toronto)
  • Justin Pierel*^ (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  • Ava Polzin (University of Toronto)
  • 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)
  • Ghassan Sarrouh (York University)
  • Marcin Sawicki (Saint Mary's 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)
  • Mabel Stephenson (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Louis-Gregory Strolger (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  • Fengwu Sun^ (Westlake University)
  • Kana Takechi^ (University of Tokyo)
  • Anthony Taylor (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Sune Toft (University of Copenhagen)
  • Ethan Tregidga (EPFL)
  • Tommaso Treu (University of California – Los Angeles)
  • Roberta Tripodi (INAF – Rome)
  • James Trussler (Harvard University)
  • Akiyoshi Tsujita (University of Tokyo)
  • Hiroya Umeda (University of Tokyo)
  • Francesco M. Valentino* (Technical University of Denmark)
  • Madison VanWyngarden (University of Arizona)
  • Eros Vanzella (INAF – Bologna)
  • Felix Vecchi (EPFL)
  • 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 (International Space Science Institute)
  • Kate Whitaker (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  • Hayley Williams (Arizona State University)
  • Chris J. Willott^ (NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics)
  • Rogier A. Windhorst (Arizona State University)
  • Yunjing Wu (University of Arizona)
  • Yi Xu (University of Copenhagen)
  • Hiroto Yanagisawa^ (University of Tokyo)
  • Erik Zackrisson (Uppsala Astronomical Observatory)
  • Anita Zanella (INAF - Bologna)
  • Adi Zitrin (Ben Gurion University)

* Data or Science Working Group Leaders
^ Data Working Group Members


VENUS Collaboration Network