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/or grant funding.

Caroline Bot: Extragalactic ISM infrared emission

Martha Boyer: Evolved stars, Local galaxies

Christopher Clark: Dust properties in nearby galaxies

Karoline Gilbert: Nearby galaxies, M31, galaxy structure

Karl Gordon: Dust Grains; Absorption, Scattering, & Emission

Claire Murray: Phases and structure of the ISM in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies

Joshua Peek:  Diffuse Universe, Circumgalactic medium, Deep Learning

Julia Roman-Duval: Dust properties, lifecyle of metals, molecular clouds, star formation

Eddie Schlafly: Large Surveys, Interstellar Dust, Galactic Structure

Erik Tollerud: Resolved stellar pops, near field cosmology

Postdoctoral Researchers

These members are working on projects in collaboration with other group members, supported by grant funding and fellowships.

Hannah Bish: Circumgalactic medium and disk halo interface of the Milky Way, 3D dust

Marjorie Decleir: Interstellar dust properties in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies

Ivanna Escala: Nearby galaxies, resolved stellar spectroscopy

Chamani Gunasekara: Dust, CLOUDY

Logan Jones: Extragalactic star clusters, multi-phase metallicities, submillimeter galaxies

Rebecca Levy: nearby galaxies, starbursts, young massive star clusters, stellar feedback

Liz Tarantino: HII regions, feedback, PAHs, AGB stars

Adam Smercina: Resolved Stellar Populations, Nearby Galaxy Archaeology, Near-Field Cosmology, Dust and the ISM, Star Formation

Graduate Students

These members are graduate students working on their PhDs with one or more of the Principal Investigators or Postdoctoral Researchers.

Lucie Correia (Strasbourg): Millimeter dust emission in Galaxies

Annie Gao (JHU): 3D ISM

Christina Lindberg (JHU): Scylla

Mathieu Willems (UGhent @ STScI): Dust grain modeling

Masters Students

These members are masters students working on projects with one or more of the Principal Investigators or Postdoctoral Researchers.

Sarv Parteek Singh (JHU): Dust mapping at high Galactic latitudes

Adjunct Investigators

These members have made a commitment to partial participation in the group through occasional attendance at group meetings at a minimum.

Steve Goldman: AGB stars, dust

Brandon Lawton: Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs), ISM dust

Derck Massa: Hot stars, dust extinction

Kristen McQuinn: resolved stellar populations in nearby galaxies

Ravi Sankrit: Supernova Remnants, Dusty Symbiotic Stars, Diffuse ISM

Tea Temim: Pulsar wind nebulae, SN dust production

Dan Welty: Dust, Depletions

John Wu: Galaxy evolution and the multiphase interstellar medium, deep learning, galaxy surveys

Past Members

Heddy Arab ⇒ Astronomical Observatory of Strasbourg

Michael Busch: ⇒ NSF AAPF / UC San Diego

Jeremy Chastenet ⇒ Ghent University

Yumi Choi: ⇒ Staff astronomer at NOIR Lab

Samyaday Choudhury ⇒ Prof. at Amedhabad University 

Lara Cullinane ⇒ AIP Potsdam

Enrico Di Teodoro ⇒ Professor at U Florence

Burcu Günay ⇒ Postdoc in Barcalona, Spain

Aleksandra Hamanowicz ⇒ STScI staff member

Lea Hagen: ⇒ data science industry

Katharina Lutz: ⇒ aerospace industry

Bram Ochsendorf ⇒ data science industry

Giada Pastorelli ⇒ U Padua

Kirill Tchernyshyov ⇒ data science industry

Dries Van De Putte ⇒ Postdoc at Univ. of Western Canada

Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones ⇒ U of Sofia

Catherine Zucker ⇒ Lecturer / Astrophysicist at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory