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Alumnae & Alumni of Center for Exoplanets & Habitable Worlds

Former Ph.D. Students

Name PhD Year Next position Most recent known position
Andrea Lin 2024 Caltech Experimental Physics and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow
Michael Palumbo 2024 Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Astrophysics
Emily Safsten 2023 Parent and part-time researcher, Penn State
Brianna Zawadzki 2023 Postdoc, Wesleyan University
Arvind Gupta 2023 Postdoctoral Fellow, NOIRLab
Macy Huston 2023 Postdoc, UC Berkeley
Christian Gilbertson 2023 Postdoc, Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Lab
Elizabeth Melton 2022 Assistant Professor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Jonathan Jackson 2022 Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow, Wesleyan University
Jiayin Dong 2022 Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Astrophysics
Shubhma Kanodia 2022 Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie EPL
Noah Tuchow 2022 NPP Fellow at NASA Goddard
Caleb Cañas 2022 NPP Fellow at NASA Goddard
Matthias He 2022 Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Notre Dame NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, NASA Ames
Sofia Sheikh 2021 Postdoctoral Scholar, Breakthrough Listen Lab at UC Berkeley
Jacob Luhn 2021 Postdoc, UC Riverside NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, JPL
Hartzel Gillespie 2021 Postdoc Fellow, Lunar & Planetary Institute
Mariah MacDonald 2021 Assistant Professor, The College of New Jersey
Danley Hsu 2020 Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Luis Nunez 2020 Teacher, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
Rebecca Payne 2020 Research Associate, Cornell
Gudmundur Stefansson 2019 Russell Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton Assistant professor in Astrophysics, University of Amsterdam
Gabriel Caceres 2018 Data Scientist at SparkBeyond
Chester “Sonny” Harman 2018 Research Scientist, NASA Ames
Natasha Batalha 2017 Research Scientist, NASA Ames
Kimberly Cartier 2017 News Writer and Production Associate for Eos, the AGU’s Earth and Space Science news publication
Taran Esplin 2017 Peter Strittmatter Fellowship at the University of Arizona
Arpita Roy 2017 Robert Millikan Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech Program Scientist at Schmidt Sciences
Jason Curtis 2016 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University Associate Research Scientist at Columbia
Sam Halverson 2016 NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowship at MIT Astronomer & Optical Engineer, JPL
Sharon Wang 2016 Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Observatories Associate Professor, Tsinghua University
Robert Morehead 2016 Faculty at the Texas Tech University Physics Department and Director of the Preston Gott Observatory Associate Teaching Professor, Penn State
Rachel Worth 2016 Data Scientist at Nielsen
Benjamin Nelson 2015 Sr. Data Scientists at Wealthfront Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Matthew Philip Route 2015 Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman
Megan Shabram 2015 NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship at NASA Ames Data Scientist, Giant Magellan Telescope
Ryan Terrien 2015 Assistant Professor at Carleton College
Michael Kuhn 2014 Postdoctoral Researcher at Caltech
Sara Jeanne Gettel 2012 Data Science Lead at Athena Health
Stephen Redman 2011 Aerospace Corporation

 

Former Postdoctoral Researchers & Research Associates

Christopher Blaszczak-Boxe Faculty at Howard University
Andy Monson Faculty at University of Arizona
Dan Stevens Assistant Research Professor at Penn State
Zhao Guo Research Scientist at Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge
Fabienne Bastien Assistant Research Professor at Penn State
Thomas Beatty Assistant Astronomer at University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory/td>

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chad Bender Associate Astronomer at University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory
Daniel Carrera Postdoctoral Researcher at Iowa State
Rohit Deshpande Data Scientist at GE Digital
Scott Fleming Archive Scientist at Space Telscope Science Institute
Daniel Jontof-Hutter Assistant Professor at University of the Pacific Associate Professor at University of the Pacific
Jeff Jennings Software Engineer, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute
Ravi Kumar Kopparapu Planetary Scientist at NASA Goddard
Sarah Morrison Assistant Professor at Missouri State University
Paul Robertson Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine
Christian Schwab Sr. Lecturer at Macquarie University
Andrew Shannon Laboratoire d’Études Spatiales et d’Instrumentation en Astrophysique (LESIA) at the Observatoire de Paris
Ari Silburt Insight Data Science Fellow
Angie Wolfgang Senior Data Scientist at SiteZeus
Daniel Stevens Faculty at University of Minnesota Duluth
Ming Zhao Data Scientist at New York Times

 

Former Undergraduates

Marissa Maney A&A Graduate student & NSF Fellow at Harvard University
Austin Ware A&A Graduate student at Arizona State University
Brian Weaver PS&A Graduate student at University of Southern California
Amber Britt PS&A NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Joseph Sheldon A&A and Physics Graduate student at University of Connecticut
Ying (Katherina) Feng A&A Graduate student at UCSC and NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Eunkyu Han A&A Graduate student at BU
Genady Pilyavsky A&A Graduate student at ASU
Nick Vendetti A&A High School Teacher
Brandon Botzer A&A
Rob Marchwinski A&A
Shivani Shah A&A Graduate student at University of Florida, Gainsville
Rory Bowens A&A Graduate student at University of Michigan
Paige Campbell A&A, Meteorology
Cody Shakespeare A&A Graduate student at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Michael Penwarden A&A, Aero Graduate student at University of Utah
Shirin Zaidi PS&A
Claire DiPerna Aero
Jonathon Hope Aero

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