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Eric Mamajek
Assistant Professor
Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
Department of Physics And Astronomy
Areas of expertise: Exoplanet detection, stellar evolution, star formation
Press contact:
Peter Iglinski
585.273.4726
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August 09, 2013
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February 15, 2013
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The Search For Alien Life With Guest Dr. Eric Mamajek (Part 3): Your Universe Today Podcast
January 14, 2013
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Your Universe Today Podcast: Planet Hunting, With Guest Dr. Eric Mamajek (Part 2)
January 07, 2013
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First Known Binary Star is Discovered to be a Triplet, Quadruplet, Quintuplet, Sextuplet System
December 10, 2009
Biography
Eric is an observational astrophysicist whose primary research interests are the formation and evolution of planetary systems, stars, and stellar groups in our Galactic neighborhood. His recent and on-going research projects and collaborations involve quantifying and trying to understand the evolution of protoplanetary and dusty debris disks around normal stars, improving distance and age estimates to astrophysically interesting stellar, protostellar, substellar, and planetary systems, and surveys to image extrasolar planets and substellar companions to nearby stars in the near- and thermal infrared. He has also recently discovered a few new nearby young stellar groups in the solar neighborhood within a few hundred parsecs of the Sun, and is interested in investigating the recent star-formation history and kinematics of the solar neighborhood and what it can inform us about star-formation mechanisms. He also recently co-authored a paper on the observational consequences of protoplanet collisions.