people

• Ryan Hickox (Professor)
• Jonathan Cohn (Guarini Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow)
• Stephanie Podjed (graduate student)
• Claire Hinrichs (graduate student; Ph.D. Innovation Fellow)
• Emmanuel Durodola (graduate student)
• Quinn Casey (graduate student)
• Ricardo Mendez ’26

group alumni

postdocs

• Francesca Civano postdoc; now Chief Scientist for Physics of the Cosmos Program at NASA GSFC
• Kevin Hainline postdoc; now Assistant Research Professor at Steward Observatory
• Mike DiPompeo postdoc; now software engineer at LightStanza
• Lauranne Lanz postdoc; now Associate Professor at The College of New Jersey
• Alberto Masini postdoc; now data scientist
• Tonima Ananna postdoc; now Assistant Professor at Wayne State University

graduate students

• Chien-Ting Chen Ph.D. ’15; now Research Scientist at NASA MSFC
• Seth Cohen Ph.D. ’16; now teacher of physics & astronomy at St. Paul’s School
• Mackenzie Jones Ph.D. ’18; now Engineering Manager at The Aerospace Corporation
• McKinley Brumback Ph.D. ’20; now Assistant Professor at Middlebury College
• Chris Carroll Ph.D. ’21; now LSSTC Catalyst Fellow at Washington State University
• Wei (Vivyan) Yan Ph.D. ’21; now Assistant Professor at Wartburg College
• Kelly Whalen Ph.D. ’23; now NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at NASA GSFC
• Grayson Petter Ph.D. ’24; now data scientist at MORSE Corp