Tony Mroczkowski

Academic interests

• Cosmology and large scale structure.
• X-ray, Radio, and Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZE) observations of clusters of galaxies.
• Astrophysical thermal and non-thermal processes in galaxy clusters
• Radio, millimeter, and submillimeter-wave instrumentation.

Education

• Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• Ph.D. in Astronomy, conferred 20 May 2009 (defended Sept. 2008). Dissertation: "The Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Array: Constraining a new pressure profile for fitting SZE observations of galaxy clusters". Thesis Committee: Greg Bryan, Zoltan Haiman, Amber Miller, Frits Paerels, & Caleb Scharf 
• M.Phil. and M.A. in Astronomy, 19 May 2004.
• Cooper Union, Nerken School of Engineering, B.S. in Engineering, with an Electrical Engineering thesis, 2001
• Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences, Physics Department, transferred to the Cooper Union in 1998

Positions held

• 2016–present: Astronomer/(Sub-)mm Instrument Scientist, European Southern Observatory (ESO) 

• 2013–2016: National Research Council (NRC) Fellow, Naval Research Lab (NRL)

• 2011–2013: Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow (2nd & 3rd years), Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)

• 2010–2011: Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow (1st year), University of Pennsylvania (U Penn)

• 2008–2010: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Pennsylvania

Affiliation

European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Additional Information

Tony's personal website on ESO

ORCID:0000-0003-3816-5372