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Physics Department

Location: 180-204
Phone: (805) 756-2448
Fax: (805) 756-2435
Email: physics@calpoly.edu
Chair: Jennifer Klay

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Lizvette Villafaña

Lizvette Villafaña

Assistant Professor

Email:  lvillafa@calpoly.edu
Office:  180-606
Phone:  805.756.0882
 

Education


  • Ph.D., Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2024
  • M.S., Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2022
  • M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California, 2020
  • B.S., Astrophysics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2018

Research Interests


  • Supermassive Black Holes
  • Black Hole Mass Measurements
  • Reverberation Mapping
  • The Broad Line Region 
  • Active Galaxies

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Please email me or come by my office if you would like to learn more about my research and teaching interests.

 
 

 

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