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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