SAS Officers

Caden is a fourth-year astronomy student from Canton, Michigan. He is currently researching the kinematics of Wolf - Rayet Stars in the LMC, as well as working on STARI – the first NASA-sponsored space mission led by the Michigan astronomy department. He is also the vice-president of the Michigan Mars Rover Team. In his free time, Caden has too many hobbies, including D&D, Magic: the Gathering, Warhammer 40k, origami, and close-up card magic. He also knows how to unicycle. 

Raven is a third year Astronomy student currently doing high-energy exoplanet research (and is really into cosmology). She has been a member of SAS since coming to U of M and is excited to use the opportunity of being VP to improve the undergraduate Astronomy community! She is from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and loves music and doing gel-x nail art. 

Eylül ‘Eya’ Galimidi is a fourth year undergraduate from Istanbul, Turkey majoring in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics, and Economics. She’s currently working with Prof. Nuria Calvet on finding and characterizing protoplanetary disks around T Tauri stars, and working with Prof. Oleg Gnedin on reconstructing assembly histories of galaxies using numerical simulations of globular clusters. Outside of research, she enjoys skiing, yoga, and baking. 

Elaina is a third-year astrophysics student from Naperville, Illinois. She is currently researching high-redshift AGN and the Little Red Dot galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope. Elaina also plays the mellophone in the Michigan Marching Band and enjoys crocheting in her free time. 

Isaac is a Junior from Stevensville, Michigan studying Astronomy & Astrophysics and ID Physics. He does research on strong gravitational lensing in galaxy clusters. Isaac enjoys running, reading, and cooking in his spare time. 

Andrew Householder is a fourth year undergraduate from Grove City, Ohio, majoring in Astronomy & Astrophysics and Interdisciplinary Physics. Through his mentor Mary Anne Limbach, he is engaged in research searching for transit signals from exomoons around nearby brown dwarf stars to gauge the moon detection capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope, and perhaps detect the first object of this kind. Outside of school, he enjoys playing board games, and watching movies.