Aaron Parsons is a professor of astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley. He designs and uses radio telescopes to search for the first stars in the universe.
News & updates
I was awarded the 2026 Beatriz Manz Award!
We used a teaching (radio) telescope to find 12 Fast Radio Bursts, providing a path toward understanding the nature of these elusive cosmic flashes!
EIGSEP published its first paper!
COHERENCE (my first novel) is published! Check out the details and order on Amazon.
EIGSEP, the Electromagnetically Isolated Global Signal Estimation Platform, successfully conducted robotic observations suspended from a height of 100m in a remote canyon.
HERA, the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array, is conducting its 9th (and final) season of observing. Project results show up at reionization.org.
