Our Team
Core members
In 2017, we founded the RPA to come together to tackle one of the last big questions of nuclear astrophysics: the nature of the r-process and its astrophysical sites of operation.
The RPA Core members are (alphabetically):
Timothy Beers
University of Notre Dame
Rana Ezzeddine
University of Florida
Anna Frebel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Terese Hansen
Stockholm University
Erika Holmbeck
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Vinicius Placco
NSF's NOIRLab
Ian Roederer
North Carolina State University
Charli Sakari
San Francisco State University
Students and Postdocs
Jessica Agnos (master's student; San Francisco State University)
Avrajit Bandyophadyay (postdoc; University of Florida)
Jonathan Cabrera Garcia (graduate student; University of Notre Dame)
Hamzah Khan (master's student; San Francisco State University)
Mohammad Mardini (postdoc; Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe)
Pranav Nalamwar (graduate student; University of Notre Dame)
Shivani Shah (graduate student; University of Florida)
Joseph Zepeda (graduate student; University of Notre Dame)
Mila Racca (graduate student; Stockholm University)
Theodora Xylakis-Dornbusch (graduate student; Heidelberg University)
... And about a dozen associate astronomers and observers from all around the world!