Professor Murad Hamidouche

Dr. Murad Hamidouche obtained his PhD in Astrophysics at the Observatory of Paris, and University of Orleans, France, in 2003. Dissertation Topic: Simulation of the Radio Interstellar Scintillation of Pulsars. He joined then the Astronomy Department, at the Univ. of Illinois, in 2003 as a postdoctoral researcher. Professor Hamidouche’s research is studying Star and Planet formation and evolution, and the ionized interstellar medium. He is particularly interested in circumstellar disks around young stellar objects where planets form. He also collaborates in the scientific and technical development of two telescopes of new generation: SOFIA which is an infrared telescope flying on board an airplane and CARMA which is a radio-interferometer observatory located at 8000 ft altitude in California.