Charles Liu is an extragalactic observational astronomer. His research focuses on colliding galaxies, starburst galaxies, and the star formation history of the universe; and it also wanders into the realm of quasars and active galactic nuclei. Charles also has a great love of teaching – informal as well as formal – and he feels a great need to help make the scientific community a better place for all people who wish to be a part of it. Charles previously served as the faculty director of the Macaulay Honors College and The Verrazano School at CSI, and as Education Officer and Councilor/Trustee of the American Astronomical Society. He is an associate with the Department of Astrophysics and Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Currently, he serves as chair of CSI's Department of Physics and Astronomy, and as president of the Astronomical Society of New York. In 2020, he was named a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society.
A description of some of his work at CUNY and CSI can be found at these links:
Degrees
PhD, University of Arizona
AB, Harvard University
Please visit Professor Liu’s ORCID page (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4314-8713) for more details; thank you!
Some recent books:
- Liu, Charles, The Cosmos Explained: A History of the Universe from Its Beginning to Today and Beyond (2022). Brighton, Ivy Press. 192 pp.
- Liu, Charles, Karen Masters, & Allen Liu. 30-Second Space Travel (2021), Brighton, Ivy Press. 160 pp.
- Liu, Charles. The Handy Physics Answer Book, 3rd edition (2020), Detroit, Visible Ink Press. 416 pp.
- Liu, Charles, Karen Masters, & Sevil Salur. 30-Second Universe (2019), Brighton, Ivy Press. 160 pp.
- Liu, Charles. The Handy Astronomy Answer Book, 3rd edition (2014), Detroit, Visible Ink Press. 359 pp.
One recent paper: Greene, Olivia A., Miguel R. Anderson, Mariarosa Marinelli, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Lauren E. P. Campbell, and Charles T. Liu (2021), The Astrophysical Journal, 910, 162. "Refining the E + A Galaxy: A Spatially Resolved Spectrophotometric Sample of Nearby Post-starburst Systems in SDSS-IV MaNGA (MPL-5)"
One less recent paper: Liu, C., et al. (2007), The Astrophysical Journal, 658, 249. “G515, Revisited. I. Stellar Populations and Evidence of Nuclear Activity in A Luminous E+A Galaxy”
One even less recent paper: Liu, C., & Kennicutt, R. C., Jr. (1995), The Astrophysical Journal Supplements, 100, 325. "A Spectrophotometric Survey of Merging Galaxies"
Last Updated: 09.09.2021
