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Keivan Guadalupe-Stassun

Visiting Professor 2011-2012 Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University Adjunct professor, Department of Physics, Fisk University
The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been in the minority… It will take such a small committed minority to work unrelentingly to win the uncommitted majority. Such a group may transform America’s greatest dilemma into her most glorious opportunity.
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Background

Keivan Guadalupe-Stassun is a professor of physics at Vanderbilt University and an adjunct professor of physics at Fisk University. He earned his PhD in astronomy as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Interests

Guadalupe-Stassun is well known for his research on star and planet formation, and leadership of the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program. His research on the birth of stars, eclipsing binary stars, exoplanetary systems, and the sun has appeared in Nature, has been featured on NPR’s Earth & Sky, and has been published in more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles. He is a host for Tennessee Explorers, a television show highlighting the work of scientists and engineers to inspire the next generation of scientific explorers, and has served as an expert witness to Congress in its review of approaches for increasing American competitiveness in these fields.

As an MLK Visiting professor, Guadalupe-Stassun concentrated his efforts on increasing the number of underrepresented minority students in the physics graduate programs. Guadalupe-Stassun and his MIT colleagues also collaborated on a project to measure trace chemical species in supernova remnants via x-ray and infrared spectroscopy.

Sample Work

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