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Joel Kastner
Associate Professor

Fields of Expertise:
Imaging & Media > Imaging Science
Science > Astronomy


Dept/Division: Center for Imaging Science, College of Science
E-Mail: jhk@cis.rit.edu
News Contact: Susan Gawlowicz, smguns@rit.edu, 585-475-5061
Website: http://www.cis.rit.edu/people/faculty/kastner/


Joel Kastner is an expert in astronomical imaging with emphasis on young stars and planet formation, evolved stars and planetary nebulae, x-ray imaging and spectroscopy, infrared imaging and spectroscopy, and radio (molecular line) spectroscopy.

He is the author or co-author of more than 50 refereed papers in astronomical literature over the past 10 years. Kastner is a member of proposal review panels for the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation radio astronomy program.

Kastner received his bachlor's in physics from University of Maryland (1981) and his master's degree (1986) and Ph.D. (1990) in astronomy from University of California.