Principal Investigator

Bryan Changala received a B.S. in Chemistry and Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013. He completed his Ph.D. in Physics in 2019 in the Ye group at JILA, University of Colorado Boulder, where he applied infrared frequency combs to the spectroscopy of buckminsterfullerene and other complex polyatomic molecules. From 2020 to 2024, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the McCarthy laboratory at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Bryan returned to CU as an Associate JILA Fellow and Asst. Professor of Physics, Adjoint, in January 2025. 

In 2016, I joined the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences (APS) at CU Boulder as an Assistant Professor of Astrophysics and a JILA Fellow.

I lead an astrophysics research group at CU Boulder, JILA, and MPE Garching studying the observational properties of gas falling onto black holes (accretion flows) and their use as probes of strong gravity.

Focus: Black hole accretion, radiative transfer, interferometry

Role: Theorist

Dr. Henry C. Kapteyn has been a Professor at the Department of Physics and a Fellow of JILA, at the University of Colorado since 1999. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at the University of Michigan, and an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Physics at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989, in the field of x-ray and short-wavelength laser physics. His work at WSU, done in collaboration with Prof.

Dr. Margaret Murnane is a Fellow at JILA and a member of the Department of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado. She received her B.S and M.S. degrees from University College Cork, Ireland, and her Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989, and joined the faculty of physics at Washington State University in 1990.

I am an assistant professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where I am also an Associate Fellow of JILA.

Occupation: Big Cheese
Nickname: Bread
PhD: University of Chicago, 1995
   Thesis: "Helium: It Makes You Talk Like Donald Duck"
MS: University of Chicago, 1992
BS: Plenty

Specialization: General

Quotes: 

"In basketball, a two-point lead is within the shot noise.”        

“Written this way, everything is gravy."

Biographical Sketch

Murray Holland was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. He wanted to be a scientist for as long as he can remember. Because his father was an electrical engineer, Holland was exposed to technical ideas from early childhood. He developed a special interest in physics when he was about 14 years old because of the influence of some excellent high school teachers.