People
Principal Investigators
These members have made a long-term commitment to full participation in the group. This includes regular attendance at group meetings and support of other group members through mentoring and grant funding.
Caroline Bot: Extragalactic ISM infrared emission
Martha Boyer: Evolved stars, Local galaxies
Karoline Gilbert: Nearby galaxies, M31, galaxy structure
Karl Gordon: Dust Grains; Absorption, Scattering, & Emission
Joshua Peek: Diffuse Universe, Circumgalactic medium
Julia Roman-Duval: Dust properties, lifecyle of metals, molecular clouds, star formation
Erik Tollerud: Resolved stellar pops, near field cosmology
Postdoctoral Researchers
These members are working on projects in collaboration with other group members, generally supported by grant funding.
Yumi Choi: Resolved stellar populations, nearby galaxies
Christopher Clark: Dust properties in nearby galaxies
Steve Goldman: Evolved stars; Mass loss
Lea Hagen: Local galaxies, UV extinction and attenuation curves
Katharina Lutz: ISM in local galaxies
Claire Murray: Galactic ISM structure; radio observations
Giada Pastorelli: Nearby galaxies, star formation histories, evolved star models
John Wu: Galaxy evolution and the multiphase interstellar medium
Enrico Di Teodoro: Galaxy modeling, dynamics
Marjorie Decleir: Nearby galaxies, radiative transfer
Aleksandra Hamanowicz: dust depletion in low-Z environments, CGM of Milky Way analogues
Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones: Dust properties, galactic structure, Magellanic Clouds
Graduate Students
These members are graduate students working on their PhDs with one or more of the Principal Investigators or Postdoctoral Researchers.
Dries Van De Putte (Univ. of Ghent/STScI): Gas and dust radiative transfer
Christina Lindberg (JHU): Scylla
Michael Busch (JHU): Hydroxyl in the Galaxy and Local Group.
Adjunct Investigators
These members have made a commitment to partial participation in the group through occasional attendance at group meetings at a minimum.
Susan Kassin: Galaxy formation
Sarah Kendrew: Star formation
Brandon Lawton: Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs), ISM dust
Derck Massa: Hot stars, dust extinction
Karl Misselt: Dust, Radiative Transfer
Kate Rowland: galaxy evolution, dust in galaxies
Ravi Sankrit: Supernova Remnants, Dusty Symbiotic Stars, Diffuse ISM
Tea Temim: Pulsar wind nebulae, SN dust production
Dan Welty: Dust, Depletions
Past Members
Heddy Arab (former postdoc: currently Astronomical observatory of Strasbourg)
Jeremy Chastenet (former grad student: currently UC San Diego)
Bram Ochsendorf (postdoc)
Kirill Tchernyshyov (former grad student; currently UW)