Our View of the Universe: From Hubble to James Webb | Jonathan Trump | TEDxUConn

Hubble: a technological catalyst for transforming our universe

Jonathan Trump is an Assistant Professor in Astronomy in the UConn Physics department. His research focuses on supermassive black holes: how they form at cosmic dawn, and grow within galaxies from cosmic high noon to the present. He has played key roles in the two of the largest Hubble Space Telescope surveys: COSMOS and CANDELS. He was educated at Penn State (BS) and the University of Arizona (PhD), and was also a UC Santa Cruz postdoc and a NASA Hubble Fellow before joining the faculty at UConn. Outside of academia, he enjoys fatherhood, brewing beer, and hunting.

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