This project is part of the Galaxy Zoo effort; you can read more about the team behind the project here.

Those responsible for this incarnation are:

Chris Lintott (Principal Investigator)

Astronomer, University of Oxford, Runs the Zooniverse collaboration and works on how galaxies form and evolve, as well as thinking of ways to find the really unusual things in large surveys. In his 'spare' time, he presents the BBC's long-running Sky at Night program, likes a glass of wine and plays real tennis.

Kate Storey-Fisher (Researcher)

Kate is a PhD candidate in Physics and a NASA FINESST Fellow. Her research is on the large-scale structure of the universe, focusing on statistical and data science methods for galaxy surveys and observational cosmology. She spends her time training machines to find weird galaxies, debugging simulations of the universe, organizing grad student labor, and writing about science and equity.

Kameswara Mantha (Researcher)

Kameswara is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota in Twin Cities with the Zooniverse citizen science platform team, working on developing human-computer optimized, novel deep-learning based anomaly detection frameworks. He is interested in the growth and evolution of galaxies and galaxy collisions (aka. mergers) and their role in the overall growth and development of galaxies over the Universe's history. He also specializes in developing human-computer optimized, novel deep-learning based anomaly detection frameworks and applies them to imaging data from large scale galaxy surveys.|

Lucy Fortson (Researcher)

I am a co-founder of the Zooniverse platform and PI of the Zooniverse@UMN group. My research area is in Very High Energy gamma rays, but one of the reasons why I love working with the Zooniverse is it gives me a chance to play in other research areas - in this case with unusual galaxies.

Development Team

The subject group viewer in which you are seeing the individual subjects was built by our developers Shaun Noordin and Campbell Allen:

Shaun Noordin

Shaun was raised by Nintendo consoles and somehow transformed his love for video games into a love for creating interactive experiences. When not at his PC playing games or reading comics, he's at his PC studying web design and coding experimental apps.

Campbell Allen (Developer)

Responsible for building the Zooniverse's API infrastructure. Cam considers himself a music and fine wine connoisseur - others do not. In his spare time he enjoys playing an obscure form of rugby.