Derek Buzasi

Derek Buzasi is an American astronomer who joined the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago as a Senior Instructional Professor in January 2025. Prior to that, he held the position of Whitaker Eminent Scholar in Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University, in Fort Myers, Florida, from October, 2012 through December 2024. He is an active member of both the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Buzasi also served as the head of the FGCU Stellar Research Group, leading a NASA-funded design study for MAGIC, a multichannel Near-ultraviolet (NUV) SmallSat mission that will detect and characterize oscillations in massive stars. He served as a Calibration Scientist for the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), as deputy project scientist for the Orbital Observatory International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) and as project scientist for the orbital observatory Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE). In the area of Science Policy, Buzasi serves on NASA's UV Science and Technology Interest Group (UV STIG) and NASA's Stars Science Interest Group (Stars SIG) and on the American Astronomical Society's demographics committee. Buzasi has also served on the Science Team of the Kepler orbital observatory and is the co-chair of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Data for Asteroseismology group, a subgroup of the TESS Asteroseismic Science Operations Center (TASOC).

In addition, he is a member of the PLATO consortium and the NewAthena Science Community. Provided by Wikipedia