Postdocs
Dr. Maddie Lucey
NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn
theoretical and observational analysis of the inner Milky Way
Dr. Stephanie O’Neil
Postdoc, Penn & Princeton
simulations of galaxy formation in alternative dark matter models
Dr. Adrien Thob
Postdoc, Penn
synthetic observations of simulated galaxies for Roman and JWST; massive stars & galaxy formation
Graduate Students
Mattie Denison
theory and simulation of alternative dark matter
David Gonzalez
modeling tidal streams from globular clusters in cosmological simulations
Aritra Kundu
near-field constraints on reionization with streams
Zach Langford
dynamics of the Milky Way’s bar
Undergraduate Students
Emma Tasso
Penn Jumpstart for Juniors, Summer 2024
dynamics of the inner Milky Way
Jasjeev Singh
PURM, Summer 2022
substructures and streams in self-interacting dark matter
Mia Mansfield
UHIfA REU program, Summer 2022
predictions for the effect of the LMC on the stellar halo
&Friends
Dr. Danny Horta Darrington
Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
reconstructing the early formation of the Galactic stellar halo
Dr. Emily Cunningham
Hubble Fellow, Columbia / Assistant Professor, Boston University
observation & interpretation of the Galactic stellar halo
Dr. Nicolas Garavito Camargo
Hubble Fellow, University of Maryland
effects of the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Milky Way
Dr. Sarah Pearson
Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen
Dr. Ivanna Escala
Postdoctoral researcher, Space Telescope Science Institute
Dr. Erin Kado-Fong
YCAA Prize Fellow, Yale University
Lillian Joseph (UPenn ’21)
Research Assistant, Benedictine University
surfaces of section in realistic galaxy models
Sioree Ansar
Postdoctoral Researcher, Durham University
CCA Pre-doctoral Program, Spring 2021
Bars on FIRE
Tom Donlon
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Alabama Huntsville
Shells on FIRE
Alumni
Arpit Arora (Penn PhD ’24)
Postdoc, University of Washington
basis-function expansion models for the Milky Way. SiDM theories.
Katie (Hikaru) Kotake (Penn ’24)
Astronomy graduate program, Columbia
Vagelos MLS Scholar
measuring the mass of a dwarf galaxy from a single star
Nondh Panithanpaisal (Penn PhD ’23)
Caltech-Carnegie Theory Fellow
tidal streams and dark matter substructure
Sarah Kane (Penn ’23, senior thesis)
Marshall Scholar, University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy
machine-learning the chemical content of stars
Emily Bregou (Penn ’23, senior thesis)
Astronomy graduate program, UT Austin
tidal streams in smooth vs lumpy halos
Jay Baptista (Yale ’23)
Physics graduate program, Stanford
UHIfA REU program, Summer 2021
the twisting of dark matter halos
Dr. Farnik Nikakhtar (Penn PhD ’22)
DESI Fellow, Yale University
synthetic surveys, data science, and action space
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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