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Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing

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Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Ioannis Argyriou
KU Leuven
2
Callum T. Donnan
NSF NOIRLab
3
Kuo Niu
University of Science and Technology of China
4
Lukas J. Furtak
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
5
Yannik Horst
ETH Zurich
6
Pavel E. Mancera Piña
Leiden University
7
Sara Mascia
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
8
N Jeffrey
Carnegie Mellon University
9
J. A. Patel
Stockholm University
10
Reinhold J. Dorn
European Southern Observatory

Rising Stars Papers

1
A high black-hole-to-host mass ratio in a lensed AGN in the early Universe
Nature|2024
154 cit.
2
<i>JWST</i> PRIMER: a new multifield determination of the evolving galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts <i>z</i> ≃ 9 – 15
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|2024
148 cit.
3
New insight on the nature of cosmic reionizers from the CEERS survey
Astronomy and Astrophysics|2024
56 cit.
4
Ultra-wideband MHz to THz plasmonic EO modulator
Optica|2025
36 cit.
5
JWST reveals the rapid and strong day-side variability of 55 Cancri e
Astronomy and Astrophysics|2024
34 cit.
6
Dark energy survey year 3 results: likelihood-free, simulation-based <i>w</i>CDM inference with neural compression of weak-lensing map statistics
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|2024
34 cit.
7
Investigating photometric and spectroscopic variability in the multiply imaged little red dot A2744-QSO1
Astronomy and Astrophysics|2025
29 cit.
8
Exploring the nature of dark matter with the extreme galaxy AGC 114905
Astronomy and Astrophysics|2024
25 cit.
9
No evidence (yet) for increased star-formation efficiency at early times
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|2025
19 cit.
10
Evidence Networks: simple losses for fast, amortized, neural Bayesian model comparison
Machine Learning Science and Technology|2024
14 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
V. Wolthoff
Heidelberg University
2
A. Vaz
University of Arizona
3
Shogo Masaki
Nagoya University
4
Antoine Zakardjian
Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
5
Qingfeng Zhu
University of Science and Technology of China
6
Chien‐Hsiu Lee
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
7
T M Stanton
Royal Observatory
8
Joris Witstok
University of Cambridge
9
Tjonnie G. F. Li
Chinese University of Hong Kong
10
Naotaka Suzuki
Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Reionization Era Bright Emission Line Survey: Selection and Characterization of Luminous Interstellar Medium Reservoirs in the z &gt; 6.5 Universe
The Astrophysical Journal|2022
204 cit.
2
<i>JWST</i> PRIMER: a new multifield determination of the evolving galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts <i>z</i> ≃ 9 – 15
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|2024
148 cit.
3
JEMS: A Deep Medium-band Imaging Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field with JWST NIRCam and NIRISS
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series|2023
145 cit.
4
The Cosmos in Its Infancy: JADES Galaxy Candidates at z &gt; 8 in GOODS-S and GOODS-N
The Astrophysical Journal|2024
137 cit.
5
<i>JWST</i> NIRCam + NIRSpec: interstellar medium and stellar populations of young galaxies with rising star formation and evolving gas reservoirs
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|2023
129 cit.
6
The galaxy UV luminosity function at <b>z ≃ 11</b> from a suite of public <i>JWST</i> ERS, ERO, and Cycle-1 programs
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|2023
126 cit.
7
Earliest Galaxies in the JADES Origins Field: Luminosity Function and Cosmic Star Formation Rate Density 300 Myr after the Big Bang
The Astrophysical Journal|2024
123 cit.
8
The star-forming and ionizing properties of dwarf <i>z</i> ~ 6–9 galaxies in JADES: insights on bursty star formation and ionized bubble growth
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|2024
112 cit.
9
The ultraviolet continuum slopes (<i>β</i>) of galaxies at z ≃ 8-16 from JWST and ground-based near-infrared imaging
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|2023
109 cit.
10
Low-mass bursty galaxies in JADES efficiently produce ionizing photons and could represent the main drivers of reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|2023
105 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Douglas P. Finkbeiner
University of California, Berkeley
2
Donald G. York
UC Davis Health
3
Giuseppe Vacanti
European Space Research and Technology Centre
4
Eric Agol
California Institute of Technology
5
Shaun Cole
Durham University
6
Thomas Ott
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
7
Amri Wandel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
8
J. M. Mïller
University of Michigan
9
A. S. Fruchter
Space Telescope Science Institute
10
Joseph M. Kahn
Stanford University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
The Astronomical Journal|2000
10.5k cit.
2
MEASURING REDDENING WITH SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY STELLAR SPECTRA AND RECALIBRATING SFD
The Astrophysical Journal|2011
7.6k cit.
3
Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP
Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology|2004
4k cit.
4
Wireless infrared communications
Proceedings of the IEEE|1997
3.3k cit.
5
Publication in Portsmouth Research Portal (University of Portsmouth) (2005) [2632 citations, W3099582894]
Portsmouth Research Portal (University of Portsmouth)|2005
2.6k cit.
6
Fading correlation and its effect on the capacity of multielement antenna systems
IEEE Transactions on Communications|2000
2.5k cit.
7
Stellar masses and star formation histories for 10<sup>5</sup>galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|2003
2.4k cit.
8
XMM-Newton observatory
Astronomy and Astrophysics|2001
2.3k cit.
9
Analytic Light Curves for Planetary Transit Searches
The Astrophysical Journal|2002
2.3k cit.
10
Merger rates in hierarchical models of galaxy formation
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|1993
2.2k cit.

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