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: Galactic ISM structure; radio observations
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
Lara Cullinane (JHU): Nearby galaxies, resolved stellar populations
Marjorie Decleir: Interstellar dust properties in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies
Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones: Dust properties in nearby galaxies, galactic structure.
Logan Jones: Extragalactic star clusters, multi-phase metallicities, submillimeter galaxies
Liz Tarantino: HII regions, feedback, PAHs, AGB stars
Chamani Gunasekara: Dust, CLOUDY (Fall 2024)
Graduate Students
These members are graduate students working on their PhDs with one or more of the Principal Investigators or Postdoctoral Researchers.
Christina Lindberg (JHU): Scylla
Annie Gao (JHU): 3D ISM
Lucie Correia (Strasbourg): Millimeter dust emission in Galaxies
Adjunct Investigators
These members have made a commitment to partial participation in the group through occasional attendance at group meetings at a minimum.
Brandon Lawton: Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs), ISM dust
Derck Massa: Hot stars, dust extinction
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
Jeremy Chastenet ⇒ UC San Diego
Samyaday Choudhury ⇒ Prof. at Amedhabad University
Bram Ochsendorf ⇒ data science industry
Kirill Tchernyshyov ⇒ University of Washington
Lea Hagen: ⇒ data science industry
Katharina Lutz: ⇒ aerospace industry
Steve Goldman: ⇒ SOFIA
Michael Busch: ⇒ NSF AAPF / UC San Diego
Yumi Choi: ⇒ Staff astronomer at NOIR Lab
Giada Pastorelli ⇒ U Padua
Enrico Di Teodoro ⇒ Professor at U Florence
Catherine Zucker ⇒ Lecturer / Astrophysicist at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Dries Van De Putte ⇒ Postdoc at Univ. of Western Canada
Burcu Günay ⇒ Postdoc in Barcalona, Spain
Aleksandra Hamanowicz ⇒ STScI staff member