Douglas Finkbeiner, Professor of Astronomy and of Physics

University of Michigan, double major in Physics and German (1994) Ph.D. from Berkeley Physics (1999) Hubble Fellow, Russell Fellow, Princeton Astronomy (2001-2006) Faculty, Harvard Astronomy Dept. (2006-present) Faculty, Harvard Physics Dept. (2009-present) Curriculum Vitae (pdf) Bio - Brief biographical sketch skymaps.info - dust map, H-alpha, etc.

Trinity College, Cambridge, UK (June, 2008)

NEWS

April 3, 2014: Does dark matter make the excess gamma rays in the inner Milky Way? Press release and March 10, 2014 APOD

February 27, 2014: Gamma Rays from the Central Milky Way: A Compelling Case for Annihilating Dark Matter arXiv:1402.6703

February 27, 2014: Can inelastic WIMP scattering make a 3.5 keV X-ray line? arXiv:1402.6671

January 7, 2014: How do you make a 3D dust map? Read this to find out!

January 7, 2014: This year's Bruno Rossi Prize goes to the Fermi Bubbles. Thanks to all who made this possible! (see here)

December 3, 2013: Our cleaned up all-sky WISE 12 micron map is out. See wise.skymaps.info and arXiv:1312.0947

October 15, 2013: More Andromeda dwarf galaxies discovered by Pan-STARRS1: arXiv:1310.4170 and arXiv:1305.5301

January 18, 2013: Hunting for dark matter with Fermi: BBC News     (Radio interview here)

January 10, 2013: What keeps me awake at night? LA Times

September 4, 2012: My thoughts on the microwave haze, posted at Cosmic Variance

May 29, 2012: CfA press release on the Fermi jets
Our paper is accepted by the Astrophysical Journal and is available at arXiv:1205.5852

and has been reported by
Nature News (Ron Cowen)
Scientific American (John Matson)
Astronomy Magazine

and also... Slashdot

Old links for Fermi bubbles and other projects are here