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Researchers

Center for Astrophysics and Space Science group photo (Nov. 2025); credit: Ignacio Fernández

Center for Astrophysics and Space Science fun group photo (Nov. 2025); credit: Ignacio Fernández

Center for Astrophysics and Space Science group photo (Nov, 2023)

Center for Astro, Particle and Planetary Physics group photo (Nov, 2022)

EMM Competition: Undergraduate students Jennifer Tsai, Quan Nham and Jason Cruz winning the first prize in the Explore Mars Competition organized by the Emirates Mars Mission team; supervised by Dr. Dimitra Atri (Feb, 2022)

Our diverse team is comprised of local Physics and Mathematics faculty members, researchers and PhD students at NYU Abu Dhabi, faculty from at the the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics at NYU New York and international faculty members from the NYU Global Network.

Director

Andrea V. Macciò

Professor of Physics

Principal Investigator

Katepalli Sreenivasan

Professor of Physics, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Co-Principal Investigators

Francesco Arneodo

Interim Dean of Science; Professor of Physics

Milan Bogosavljevic

Senior Lecturer of Physics

Ian Dobbs-Dixon

Associate Professor of Physics

Joseph Gelfand

Associate Professor of Physics

Laurent Gizon

Director & Scientific Member, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

Shravan Hanasoge

Associate Professor, Dept of Astronomy and Astrophysics, TIFR

David Russell

Associate Professor of Physics

Ingyin Zaw

Program Head, Physics; Associate Professor of Physics

Investigators

Dimitra Atri

Research Assistant Professor

Adriano Di Giovanni

Assistant Professor, Physics, Gran Sasso Science Institute

Paolo Giommi

Senior Scientist, Italian Space Agency

Paolo Padovani

Astronomer, European Southern Observatory

CASS Fellows

Mohamad Ali-Dib, Senior Research Scientist
Mohamad Abbas, Research Associate
Ignacio del Moral-Castro, Associate Research Scientist
Dimitrios Kantzas, Research Associate
Vigneshwaran Krishnamoorthi, Research Assistant
Bhargav Mantravadi, Postdoctoral Associate
Sergey Nikiforov, Postdoctoral Associate
Michael Rosenthal, Postdoctoral Associate

Researchers

Leen Al Rawas, Graduate Research Assistant
Jason Alford, Post-Doctoral Associate
Noora Almarei, Junior Research Scientist
Maryam Amanullah, Graduate Research Assistant
Nicolas Bernal, Research Scientist
Jasmina Blecic, Research Scientist
Pierre Boldrini, Associate Research Scientist
Daniel Bramich, Research Scientist
Carlo Cannarozzo, Associate Research Scientist
Mitali Damle, Post-Doctoral Associate
Kuldeep Deka, Post-Doctoral Associate
Francesco Dotti, Research Associate
Nikolaos Georgakarakos, Research Scientist
Omar Ibrahim, Junior Research Scientist
Antonio Junior Iovino, Post-Doctoral Associate
Ivan Katkov, Research Associate
Fazeel Khan, Research Associate
Sara Leardini, Post-Doctoral Associate
Yuhang Liu, Graduate Research Assistant
Simi Mangani, Post-Doctoral Associate
Safa Naseem, Graduate Research Assistant
Ahmad Nemer, Research Associate
Leandro Silveri, Post-Doctoral Associate
Yi-Jung Yang, Research Associate
Alia Zino, Research Assistant

Visiting Scholars

Noora Alsaeed, Senior Space Science Researcher, UAE Space Agency

PASS Students

Dalya Akl, Graduate Research Assistant
Sara Alameeri, Graduate Research Assistant
Amna Alhosani, Graduate Research Assistant
Marwa Almamari, Graduate Research Assistant
Deena Almarzooqi, Graduate Research Assistant
Aisha Alyazeedi, Graduate Research Assistant
Federico Baraggioni, Graduate Research Assistant
Alhanouf Eshtairy, Graduate Research Assistant
Swetha Lakshmi, Graduate Research Assistant
Yifei Li, Graduate Research Assistant
Marthala Narayana, Graduate Research Assistant
Dean Pretorius, Graduate Research Assistant