Douglas Finkbeiner, Associate Professor of Astronomy and of Physics

University of Michigan, double major in Physics and German (1994) Ph.D. from Berkeley Physics (1999) Hubble Fellow, Russell Fellow, Princeton Astronomy (2001-2006) Faculty, Harvard Astronomy Dept. (2006-present) Faculty, Harvard Physics Dept. (2009-present) Curriculum Vitae (pdf) Bio - Brief biographical sketch skymaps.info - dust map, H-alpha, etc.

Trinity College, Cambridge, UK (June, 2008)

NEWS

January 18, 2013: Hunting for dark matter with Fermi: BBC News     (Radio interview here)

January 10, 2013: What keeps me awake at night? LA Times

September 4, 2012: My thoughts on the microwave haze, posted at Cosmic Variance

July 30, 2012: More line excitement: unassociated Fermi LAT point sources show double-line emission at 3.2 sigma: arXiv:1207.7060

June 14, 2012: We have posted a paper with "strong evidence" for a gamma-ray line or lines at around 130 GeV: arXiv:1206.1616

May 29, 2012: CfA press release on the Fermi jets
Our paper is accepted by the Astrophysical Journal and is available at arXiv:1205.5852

and has been reported by
Nature News (Ron Cowen)
Scientific American (John Matson)
Astronomy Magazine

and also... Slashdot

Old links for Fermi bubbles and other projects are here