Science Operations

Joannah Hinz

Deputy Director

Email: jhinz@lbto.org

Office Information:
Steward Observatory – Large Binocular Telescope Observatory
933 N. Cherry Ave
Rm N532
Tucson 85721
Arizona (AZ) United States

Education:

Ph.D. – Astronomy, University of Arizona (2003)

About
Joannah is as associate research professor at the University of Arizona and joined the LBT as Deputy Director in June 2024. Previously she worked as an associate staff scientist at the MMT Observatory. Her research interests include star formation and dust in nearby galaxies. She worked in the Spitzer MIPS instrument team and was a member of the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G) team. She also worked on the Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: a Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel (KINGFISH) project with data from the Herschel Space Observatory.