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Professor Douglas Richstone
Professor and Chair of Astronomy, University of Michigan
 Douglas Richstone is Professor and Chair of Astronomy
at the University of Michigan, where he has worked since 1980. He has
held brief concurrent appointments at the National Observatory of
Japan, the Institute for Advanced Study and the Institute for
Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara, and as a Guggenheim
Fellow.
His service activities over the last decade include the State of
Ohio Physics and Astronomy Review of Ph.D. Programs, member and chair
of the Space Telescope Institute Council, the Gemini Project
Oversight Committee, American Astronomical Society and Dynamical
Division Prize Committees and the DDA council, the AURA (Association
of Universities for Research in Astronomy) Board of DIrectors and the
NASA Space Science Advisory Committee.
Richstone received a B.S. with honors in Astronomy from Caltech and
a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Princeton University in 1975. His most
active current research activities include dynamics of galaxy centers
and the demographics, formation and evolution of massive black holes.
He is the leader of the "Nukers", an international collaboration of
15 scientists studying the nuclei of galaxies, and a member of the
LISA (Large Interferometry Space Antenna) Mission Definition Team. He
maintains interests in the estimation of cosmological parameters and
formation and evolution of clusters of galaxies.
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