Graduate Students

Joe Adamo

• B.S. in Engineering Physics, 2020, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Rachael C Amaro

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

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

Collin Christy

• B.S. in Physics and Astrophysics, 2021, The Ohio State University

Maria Gabriela Cota Moreira

• B.S. in Physics, 2017, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

• M.S. in Physics, 2020, São Paulo State University, Brazil

Christa DeCoursey

• B.S. in Physics and Astrophysics, 2021, University of Florida

Jeremy Dietrich

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

Hayden Foote

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

Hayden works with Gurtina Besla to study the dynamics of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies and what they can tell us about the nature of dark matter.

Jakob Helton

• B.A. in Astrophysical Sciences, 2021, Princeton University

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.

Yu-Hsiu Huang

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2019, National Tsing Hua University

• M.S. in Physics, 2021, National Taiwan University

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.

Donghyeon (Jeff) Khim

• B.S. in Astronomy and Physics, 2018, Yonsei University

Chia-Lin Ko

• B.S. in Physics, 2018, National Taiwan Normal University

• M.S. in Astronomy, 2020, National Tsing Hua University

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

Jialin Li

• B.S. in Physics, 2022, University of California, Santa Cruz

Joseph Long

• B.A. Physics, 2014, Pomona College

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

Vikram Manikantan

• B.A. in Physics, 2022, Northwestern University

Evan Mayer

• B.A. Physics, 2017, University of Chicago

Rebecca Minsley

• B.A. , 2021, Bates College

Matthew Murphy

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

Mahdi Naseri

• B.S. in Physics, 2021, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran

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.

Maria Pudoka

• B.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021, The Ohio State University

Yujing Qin

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

Himansh Rathore

• B.Tech in Engineering Physics , 2022, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Pranjal RS

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

Nicholas Schragal

• B.S., Physics, 2021, University of Alabama, Huntsville

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

Amy Smock

• B.S. in Physics, 2018, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Meredith Stone

• B.S. in Astronomy, 2022, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Fengwu Sun

• B.S., 2018, Peking University

Yang Sun

• B.S. , 2020, Beijing Normal 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

Haowen Zhang

• B.S., 2018, Peking University