Graduate Students
![]() Rachael C Amaro
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![]() Chris Bilinski
Chris is researching presupernova outbursts using KAIT and measuring disk sizes using CHARA interferometry. |
![]() Alex Bixel
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 |
![]() Ryan Boyden
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![]() Gabriele Bozzola
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
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![]() Vivian Carvajal
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![]() Katie Chamberlain
Katie uses cosmological simulations to study the frequency and dynamics of dwarf galaxy pairs and groups throughout cosmic time with Gurtina Besla |
![]() Zuyi Chen
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![]() Jeremy Dietrich
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![]() Ryan Endsley
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![]() Hayden Foote
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
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![]() Michael Hammer
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
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
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
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![]() Xiangyu Jin
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![]() Victoria Jones
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![]() Jennifer Kadowaki
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
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![]() Aafaque Khan
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
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![]() Sophie Lebowitz
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![]() Katrina Litke
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
Joseph is working on adaptive optics instrumentation and analysis of coronagraphic data. |
![]() Erin Maier
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![]() Matthew Murphy
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![]() Logan Pearce
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![]() Jeniveve Pearson
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
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
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![]() Mel Rose
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![]() Pranjal RS
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![]() Noah Salazar Rivera
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![]() Samantha Scibelli
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![]() Spencer Scott
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![]() Andrew Sevrinsky
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![]() Fengwu Sun
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![]() Jasmin Washington
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![]() Cameron White
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![]() Lily Whitler
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![]() Charity Woodrum
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![]() Jiachuan Xu
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![]() Minghao Yue
Minghao is working with Prof. Xiaohui Fan on the environment of quasars and their host galaxies. |
![]() Haowen Zhang
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