Alex is the Atherton and Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Pennsylvania State University, and original discoverer of exoplanets around the pulsar PSR B1257+12 in 1992. He was my dissertation supervisor. Together we have made a number of discoveries using Arecibo Observatory, including the first radio emitting T dwarf, 2MASS J10475385+2124234, and potentially the fastest rotating ultracool dwarf, WISEPC J112254.73+255021.5. We currently collaborate on several projects related to ultracool dwarf astrophysics.
Leslie is a professor and observational astrophysicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who specializes in star and planet formation at radio wavelengths. We have an ongoing research project to search for the non-thermal radio emission from T Tauri systems.
Maxim is a theoretical professor of astrophysics at Purdue University. We pool our observational and theoretical expertise to probe questions related to stellar magnetism and non-thermal emission, including the study of sources of electron cyclotron maser emission among exoplanets, stars, and stellar remnants.
Giusy is an assistant professor in the physics department at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. We are currently joining observational and theoretical perspectives to probe the nature of magnetic dynamos among fully convective objects, such as low-mass stars and brown dwarfs.