Graduate Students A-G
Timothy Arnold
B.S., 2008, Ohio State University
Personal Website: http://alrischa.as.arizona.edu/~tjarnold/
Areas of Interest:
Vanessa Bailey
B.S., University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (Astrophysics, Physics)
Areas of Interest: Instrumentation, extrasolar planets
Vanessa is currently testing a novel type of wavefront sensor for use in adaptive optics systems.
Fuyan Bian
M.S., 2007, Tsinghua University
Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation
Fuyan is working on high redshift quasars and galaxies using the large binocular telescope.
Katherine Brutlag
B.A., 2004, Middlebury College
Personal Website: http://www.ktbrutlag.com
Areas of Interest: Planetary Astronomy, High Energy Astrophysics, Astronomy Education
Katherine is currently working on understanding multi-dimensional effects on the Eddington limit in Low Mass X-ray Binaries.
(Robert) Shane Bussman
M.S., 2007, The University of Arizona
B.A., 2003, University of California, Berkeley
Personal Website: http://wrigley.as.arizona.edu/~rsbussmann/
Areas of Interest: Extragalactic Astronomy
Shane is studying the multi-wavelength properties of high-redshift ULIRGs discovered with the Spitzer Space Telescope in the NOAO Deep Wide Field Survey, with the goal of understanding how galaxies form and evolve in the Universe.
Stephanie Cortes
B.S., 2005, Clemson University
Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation; Astrobiology
Stephanie is interested in pre-main sequence evolution of star-disk-envelope systems, with the primary motivation of connecting circumstellar disk evolution with planet formation.
Ben Cowin
B.S., 2007, University of Washington
Areas of Interest:
Aleks Diamond-Stanik
B.S., 2004, Carleton College
Areas of Interest:
Pablo Espinoza
B.S., 2006, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy, Star Formation, Planetary Astronomy
Pablo is currently looking for outflows in nearby debris disk stars using Spitzer's Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS). The goal is to characterize the violent history of terrestrial planet formation by estimating the frequency of major planetesimal collisions in these systems.
Kevin Flaherty
B.S., 2005, University of Rochester
Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation
Amanda Ford
B.A., 2001, Harvard
Areas of Interest: Astrophysics, Star Formation
Amanda uses radiative transfer codes to model depletion (freezing out on dust grains) of C18O in starless cores to help understand their evolution.
Jared Gabor
B.S., 2005, Caltech
Areas of Interest: Galaxy evolution, AGN
Jared uses cosmological simulations to explore mechanisms that form massive, red and dead galaxies. He also likes AGN, high-z galaxies, solar energy, and rock climbing.
Andras Gaspar
M.Sc., 2008, University of Arizona
M.Sc., 2006, University of Szeged
http://merope.as.arizona.edu/~agaspar
Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation, Stellar Astronomy, Planetary Astronomy
Andras is working on modeling the infrared emission originating from the interaction between the interstellar matter and stars. He is also working on the timescales of debris disks evolution.
Julia Greissl
B.S., 2003, Caltech
Areas of Interest: Galactic Astronomy and Star Formation