Nick Scoville is the Francis L. Moseley Professor of Astronomy at Caltech[1] and departmental chair.
His research interests include interstellar molecular clouds, the star formation which occurs in these clouds, interacting ultraluminous-infrared galaxies and active galactic nuclei. His main hobby outside of astronomy is steel sculptural welding. He works on the Hubble Heritage Project, and the Cosmic Evolution Survey multi-wavelength deep-field study of galaxies in the early universe.