Thomas Kupfer

Thomas Kupfer
Assistant Professor
Texas Tech University
Email: tkupfer(at)ttu.edu

Upcoming Events

Sep. 2022 - Colloqium visit from Tyson Littenberg (NASA Marshal)

Recent highlights

July 2022 - Attended the 14th LISA symposium with A. Amalbert
June 2022 - M. Cuevas was highlighted by the College of Arts and Science
May 2022 - Attended 10th Meeting on Hot Subdwarf stars and related objects with K. Deshmukh, C. Bradshaw, E. Stringer
Mar 2022 - C. Bradshaw was awarded telescope time at the SOAR telescope for his research
Feb 2022 - Published paper on double detonation progenitor system in ApJL

Welcome to my Website

Welcome to my website. I joined the Department of Physics at Texas Tech University in 2020 as Assistant Professor and thoroughly enjoy working with our students and my colleagues. My research focuses on compact binaries, gravitational wave sources, supernova Ia progenitors, late stellar binary evolution and compact pulsators. I use large-scale sky surveys combined with detailed follow-up observations to address different science questions. I am a full member of the LISA consortium and a memeber of the BlackGEM collaboration where I lead the Galactic Science working group.

Iam grateful that my research is currently supported by three external research grants, including support from the National Science Foundation through grant AST #2107982, from NASA through grant 80NSSC22K0338 and from STScI through grant HST-GO-16659.002-A. If you are interested to learn more about the science in my group or want to do astronomy research, please check out my group's research page, and send me an email to set up a meeting.