Andrew Zentner
University of Pittsburgh, Professor of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pittsburgh, Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Dr. Andrew Zentner is a theoretical cosmologist working in areas that are closely aligned with the goals of contemporary experiments, such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. He joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in the Fall of 2007.
Prior to entering into theoretical cosmology, he grew up a Mets fan in Queens, New York. Dr. Zentner received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 2003 under the direction of Professor Terry Walker.
He was then an Institute Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago from Fall 2003 until Fall 2006.
Dr. Zentner was a National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kavli Institute and the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago from Fall 2006 until moving to the University of Pittsburgh.