David Merritt

David Merritt was until 2017 a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University and held postdoctoral positions at U. C. Berkeley and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics before coming to RIT. His fields of interest include galaxy dynamics and evolution, supermassive black holes, and computational astrophysics. He is the author of Dynamics and Evolution of Galactic Nuclei (Princeton University Press, 2013) and A Philosophical Approach to MOND (Cambridge University Press, 2020), as well as more than 400 articles in refereed journals. He lives with his wife in Rochester, New York.