Professor Eric Gawiser studied Physics and Public Policy as an undergraduate, received his Ph.D. in Physics for research in theoretical cosmology, and joined the Rutgers faculty in 2007 to study distant galaxies using the world's largest telescopes. Prof. Gawiser's research uses these distant galaxies to reveal the nature of dark matter and dark energy as well as to learn how galaxies form and grow. His discovery of young galaxies that are the ancestors of galaxies like our own Milky Way was covered by USA Today, BBC, and newspapers from as far away as Thailand, India, Turkey and Kazakhstan. Prof. Gawiser enjoys advising students and has supervised the research of sixteen Rutgers undergraduates. He teaches Astrophysics for undergraduate majors and non-majors and gives frequent lectures for the general public.
