Prof. Robyn Sanderson
(‘ɹɑb-ɪn ‘san-dɞr-sʊn) is the PI.
tweeting as @astrorobyn
how did I get here?
Postdocs
Dr. Adrien Thob
Postdoc, Penn
synthetic observations of simulated galaxies for Roman and JWST; massive stars & galaxy formation
Dr. Nicolas Garavito Camargo
Flatiron Research Fellow, CCA
effects of the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Milky Way
Dr. Emily Cunningham
Hubble Fellow, Columbia
observation & interpretation of the Galactic stellar halo
Dr. Danny Horta Darrington
Flatiron Research Fellow, CCA
reconstructing the early formation of the Galactic stellar halo
Graduate Students
Nondh Panithanpaisal
Zaccheus Daniel Fellow
tidal streams and dark matter substructure
Arpit Arora
basis-function expansion models for the Milky Way. SiDM theories.
Undergraduate Students
Emily Bregou (Penn ’23)
tidal streams in smooth vs lumpy halos
Jay Baptista (Yale ’23)
UHIfA REU program, Summer 2021
the twisting of dark matter halos
Katie (Hikaru) Kotake (Penn ’24)
Vagelos MLS Scholar
measuring the mass of a dwarf galaxy from a single star
Erica Wu (Penn ’25)
PURM, Summer 2022
Galaxy bars with and without black holes
Ali Al Ayssami (Penn ’25)
PURM, Summer 2022
the asteroseismic view of the Milky Way
Kiana Ejercito (UH ’25)
UHIfA REU program, Summer 2022
how galaxy formation influences stellar halo profiles
&Friends
Dr. Farnik Nikakhtar (Penn PhD ’22)
DESI Fellow, Yale University
synthetic surveys, data science, and action space
Dr. Sarah Pearson
Hubble Fellow, NYU
Dr. Ivanna Escala
Carnegie-Princeton fellow, Princeton University
Dr. Erin Kado-Fong
YCAA Prize Fellow, Yale University
Lillian Joseph (UPenn ’21)
Astronomy Master’s program, AIP Potsdam
surfaces of section in realistic galaxy models
Sioree Ansar
Graduate student, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru
CCA Pre-doctoral Program, Spring 2021
Bars on FIRE
Tom Donlon
Graduate student, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Shells on FIRE
Youjia Wu
Graduate student, University of Michigan Physics
Alumni
Dr. Stella Reino
Ph.D. ’22, Sterrewacht Leiden
Mapping the dark halo with streams
Now working in industry
Dr. Drona Vargya (Penn PhD ’20)
dynamical constraints on self-interacting dark matter
Marvin Morgan (UPenn ’21, senior thesis)
now a grad student in Astronomy at UT Austin
Chris Regan (UPenn ’21, senior thesis)
now working in the finance sector
Jen Locke (UPenn ’22)
metallicity gradients in tidal streams
now working in the aerospace sector
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