About

K. Decker French

Photo of Decker French speaking at outreach event

Credit: Christophe Marcadé for Caltech Astronomy Outreach

Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research interests: Galaxy Evolution, Transient Astronomy

You can reach me at: deckerkf –at– illinois–dot– edu

ORCID: 0000-0002-4235-7337

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (August 2020 – present)

  • Hubble Fellow, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute for Science (2017-2020)

EDUCATION

  • University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ: Ph.D, Astronomy and Astrophysics (August 2017)

  • University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ: M.S. Astronomy (2013)

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA: S.B. Physics; S.B. Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (2011)