Graduate Students

Rachael C Amaro

• B.S. in Engineering Physics, 2018, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chris Bilinski

• B.S., 2010, California Institute Of Technology

Chris is researching presupernova outbursts using KAIT and measuring disk sizes using CHARA interferometry.

Alex Bixel

• B.A., 2016, University of Virginia

Alex is working with Daniel Apai to study the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets using transmission spectroscopy. He is also interested in how life could be detected through its effects on the chemical composition of atmospheres.

Haley Bowden

• B.S. in Physics, 2020, University of California, Santa Barbara

Ryan Boyden

• B.S. in Physics and Astronomy, 2017, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Gabriele Bozzola

• M.S. in Physics, 2017, University of Milan

Gabriele is working with Vasileos Paschalidis to study in full general relativity the fragmentations of supermassive stars that result in binary black holes surrounded by accretion disks.

Jane Bright

• B.S. in Physics and B.A. in Mathematics, 2018, Denison University

Vivian Carvajal

• B.S. in Physics, 2020, University of Maryland, College Park

Katie Chamberlain

• B.S. in Physics and Mathematics, 2018, Montana State University

Katie uses cosmological simulations to study the frequency and dynamics of dwarf galaxy pairs and groups throughout cosmic time with Gurtina Besla

Zuyi Chen

• B.S. in Astronomy, 2019, University of Science & Technology of China

Jeremy Dietrich

• B.A. in Astrophysics and Physics, 2017, Harvard

Ryan Endsley

• B.A., 2015, Washington University-St. Louis

Hayden Foote

• B.A. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020, University of Colorado - Boulder

My degree is a BA in Astronomy & Astrophysics from the University of Colorado Boulder, received in 2020. My areas of interest are galaxy dynamics, formation, and evolution.

Nico Garavito Camargo

• M.S., 2015, Universidad de Los Andes

Michael Hammer

• B.A., 2015, Cornell University

Michael is working with Kaitlin Kratter, Min-Kai Lin, and Paola Pinilla on hydrodynamic simulations of protoplanetary discs. His main focus areas are vortices and comparing these simulations to observations.

Yun-Hsin Huang

• M.S., 2015, University of Chicago

Yun-Hsin is working with Profs. Xiaohui Fan and Eiichi Egami on the Steward/UKIRT Near-IR Imaging of the Hyper Supreme-Cam (HSC) Deep Fields.

Raphael Erik Hviding

• B.A., 2018, Dartmouth College

Raphael works with the James Webb Space Telescope NIRCAM team under Professors Kevin Hainline and Marcia Rieke. He studies galaxy formation and evolution and has a special place in his heart for obscured AGN and AGN demographics. He can be found in Steward 253, but don't tell his advisors that.

Soley Hyman

• B.A. in Astrophysics & Physics, 2019, Harvard University

Xiangyu Jin

• B.S. in Physics, 2018, Nanjing University

• M.S. in Physics, 2020, McGill University

Jennifer Kadowaki

• B.A., 2014, University of California-Los Angeles

Jennifer is working with Prof. Dennis Zaritsky on low-surface brightness galaxies. In particular, her research focuses on understanding the environment's role in the formation and evolution of ultra-diffuse galaxies.

Ryan Keenan

• B.S in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics, & Mathematical Sci, 2017, University of Michigan

Aafaque Khan

• B. Tech. Mechanical Engineering, 2013, National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India

Aafaque works with Dr. Erika Hamden on developing UV detectors and instrumentation for balloon and space-based telescopes. He is interested in studying the Circumgalactic medium (CGM) and its role in galaxy evolution.

Harrison Krantz

• B.S. Engineering Physics & B.S. Computer Science, 2017, Colorado School of Mines

Sophie Lebowitz

• B.A. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020, Ohio State University

Katrina Litke

• B.S., 2015, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Katrina is working with Prof. Dan Marrone to study gravitationally lensed dusty star-forming galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

Joseph Long

• B.A. Physics, 2014, Pomona College

Joseph is working on adaptive optics instrumentation and analysis of coronagraphic data.

Erin Maier

• B.S. in Physics and Astronomy, 2017, University of Iowa

Matthew Murphy

• B.S. in Physics & Astronomy, 2020, Stony Brook University

Logan Pearce

• B.S., 2019, University of Texas at Austin

• M.A., 2014, University of Texas at Austin

• B.S., 2003, Purdue University

Jeniveve Pearson

• B.S. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020, Ohio State University

I graduated with a B.S. in Astronomy and Physics from The Ohio State University in 2020, and my areas of interest are core collapse supernovae, massive stars, and stellar evolution.

Ragadeepika Pucha

• Integrated M.Sc in Physics, 2015, Visva-Bharati University

Raga is working with Prof. Beth Willman on the study of resolved populations in dwarf galaxies. She is interested in learning about how the dwarf galaxies grow and evolve.

Yujing Qin

• M.A., 2016, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Mel Rose

• B.A. in Astrophysics and Engineering Sciences, 2017, Harvard University

Pranjal RS

• B.Tech. in Engineering Physics, 2019, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Noah Salazar Rivera

• B.S. Physics & B.S. Computer Science, 2017, California State University, San Bernardino

Samantha Scibelli

• B.S. in Physics and Astronomy, 2017, Stony Brook University

Spencer Scott

• B.A. in Astrophysics and Physics, 2019, Harvard University

Andrew Sevrinsky

• B.S. in Physics, 2017, Georgia State University

Fengwu Sun

• B.S., 2018, Peking University

Jasmin Washington

• B.S. in Astronomy & Physics, 2020, University of Virginia

Lily Whitler

• B.S. in Physics & Mathematics, 2020, Arizona State University

Charity Woodrum

• B.S. in Physics , 2018, University of Oregon

Jiachuan Xu

• B.S. in Physics, 2018, Tsinghua University

Minghao Yue

• B.A., 2016, Peking University

Minghao is working with Prof. Xiaohui Fan on the environment of quasars and their host galaxies.

Haowen Zhang

• B.S., 2018, Peking University