Star Formation Research Group

Current Research Group Members: 

Josh Taylor  (postdoc), Juan Farias  (postdoc), Dominique Segura-Cox (postdoc/NSF Fellow), Margot Fitz-Axen (DOE CSGF), Nina Filippova (DOE CSGF), Keith Poletti (CSEM), Savannah Pineda (Physics MA), Hsin-Pei  Chen (astronomy), Nina De La Torre (CSEM), Ananya Kaalva*, Finn Pinto*, Carlos Ortega*, Jake Ridenbaugh*, Lucy Howell*.

*= undergrad researcher

Past Research Group Members:

Postdocs: 

David Guszejnov  (McDonald Fellow/Cottrell Fellow, Hubble Fellow at the CfA, consultant with Ab Initio)  

Hope Chen (Quantitative Researcher at JQ Investments)  

Aaron Lee (faculty at St Mary's College of CA) 


Grad students: 

Duo Xu  (2016-2021, now VICO postdoc fellow) 

Colin Van Oort (2015-2017, Lead Computational Finance Scientist at MITRE) 

Brandt Gaches (2013-2019, now postdoc at Chalmers University) 

Yue Liu (2015-2016)

Chris Thibodeau (2014-2015) 

Joyce Lee (2014)


Undergraduates: 

Andrew Milne (2023, REU)

Cosme Aquino Ovelar (2022, TAURUS)

Cayden Kirkpatrick (2022, TAURUS)

Sammy Sharief (2022-2023,  REU, PhD student at the University of  Montreal)

Enrico Piperno (2019-2021, Technical Studentship at ATLAS experiment in CERN, Applied Physics Stanford)

Aman Raju (2020-2022, Erasmus Mundus Astronomy MA, EU)

Sang Kook (2022, data science grad student at U of Michigan)

Sean Feng (2022)

Dhruva Karkada  (2019-2021, physics grad student at Berkeley) 

Carleen Markey  (2020-2021, REU, physics grad student at Carnegie Mellon) 

Amanda Lue (2021, TAURUS, astro grad student at Columbia) 

Gina Chen (2019-2020, physics grad student at Carnegie Mellon)

Jack Berry (2018) 

Justin Kang (2018, astronomy grad student at the University of Arizona)

Jonah Chaban (2016) 

Ryan Boyden  (2014-2015, University of Arizona PhD, postdoc at UVA) 

Chris Bradshaw ( 2013, astronomy grad student at UC Santa Cruz) 

Ian Suvack (2013)

Kayla Redmond (2012) 

Peter Jumper (2012, Astronomy PhD at the University of Toronto), 

Chelsea Harris (2011, Astronomy PhD UC Berkeley / NSF Grad Fellow, now Postdoc at Michigan State),  

John Capodilupo (2011, Co-founder and CTO of WHOOP), 

 Eve Lee (2010, PhD UC Berkeley, Sherman Fairchild Fellow at Caltech, faculty at McGill University)


High-School:

Neosha Narayanan (2015, Amherst)