People
If you are interested in knowing more about or joining our group, feel free to email Andy, Thomas, or any of the current graduate students with your questions.
Faculty
Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences and Enrico Fermi Institute
PI of CHILI Lab
a-davis@uchicago.edu | Hinds 129
Research Project: Presolar Grains, Genesis Samples, Asteroid Samples
Research Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences
CHILI Lead
tstephan@uchicago.edu | Hinds 121
Research Project: CHILI, Presolar Grains, Genesis Samples, Trace Element Analysis
Research Professional, Department of the Geophysical Sciences
golack@uchicago.edu | Hinds 323
Distinguished Fellow, Material Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Professor (Part-time), Department of the Geophysical Sciences and Enrico Fermi Institute
pellin@anl.gov | Hinds 125
Research Project: CHILI
Robert A. Pritzker Curator of Meteorites, Field Museum
Professor (Part-time), Department of the Geophysical Sciences
prheck@fieldmuseum.org | Hinds 123
Former post-doc in the group from 2009 to 2010
Research Project: Presolar Grains, Meteorites
Research Professor, PI of Noble Gas Lab
yokochi@uchicago.edu | Hinds 533
Research Project: Noble Gas Geochemistry
Students
Graduate Student (Ph.D.), Department of Chemistry
jkorsmeyer@uchicago.edu | Hinds 123
Research Project: CHILI, Genesis Samples, Presolar Grains
Graduate Student (Ph.D.), Origins Lab
regula@uchicago.edu | Hinds 131
Research Project: CHILI, Trace Element Analysis
Former Members
Completed their Bachelor's with the group in 2017
Research Project: Cosmic Ray Tracks
Guest Lecturer at Wheaton College and Guest Faculty at Concordia University Chicago
Completed Master's in 2022
Research Project: CHILI, Presolar Grains
Post-doc at the Field Museum
Completed Ph.D. in 2021, Post-doc in 2021
Research Project: Presolar Grains, GEMs and IDPs
Graduate Student at the California Institute of Technology
Completed Bachelor's in 2021
Software Engineer Intern at Google
Completed Master's in 2019
Senior Data Analyst at Relativity, Inc.
Post-doc from 2016 to 2019
Research Project: CHILI, Presolar Grains
Researcher at BASF
Completed Ph.D. in 2016, Post-doc from 2016 to 2018
Research Project: Presolar Grains, GEMs and IDPs
Graduate Student at the California Institute of Technology
Completed Bachelor's in 2017
Research Project: CHILI
Regional Sales Manager at Bruker Optics
Completed Master's in 2016
Assistant Research Professor in Physics at Brandeis University
Completed Ph.D. in 2016, Post-doc in 2016
Research Project: Presolar Grains, CHILI
Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Post-doc from 2014 to 2015
Research Project: Presolar Grains
Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland in New Zealand
Research Scientist from 2010 to 2015
Associate Professor at the University of Münster in Germany
Post-doc from 2013 to 2015
Research Assistant Professor in Physics at Washington University in St. Louis
Completed Ph.D. in 2014
Research Project: Presolar Grains
Post-doc at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Completed Ph.D. in 2012
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the Natural History Museum in London
Post-doc from 2010 to 2011
Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at University of California Santa Cruz
Completed Bachelor's in 2009
Staff Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Post-doc from 2006 to 2009
Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, PI of Parai Lab
Completed Bachelor's in 2008
Associate Professor the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Colgate University
Post-doc from 2005 to 2008
Louis Block Professor at The University of Chicago, PI of Origins Lab
dauphas@uchicago.edu | Hinds 589
Post-doc from 2002 to 2004
Our group frequently collaborates with other cosmochemistry research groups, both local to Chicago and worldwide. We work closely with the Robert A. Pritzker Center at the Field Museum in Chicago, the Origins Lab and Noble Gas Lab at UChicago, the Laboratory for Space Sciences @ Wash U Physics in St. Louis, the Max Plank Institute for Chemistry in Germany, and others. We also attend the annual conferences hosted by the Meteoritical Society and the Lunar and Planetary Institute.