Research Group

My current group:

    • Olivia Curtis, postdoc (extragalactic SETI)
    • Cayla Dedrick graduate student (MINERVA)
    • Pinchen Fan graduate student (laser SETI)
    • Winter Parts graduate student (solar system SETI)
    • Phoebe Sandhaus graduate student (joint stellar and exoplanetary modeling)
    • Aidan Groenendaal undergraduate (SETI and the ATA)
    • Lennon Nichol undergraduate (SETI bibliography and NEID exposure meter)
    • Ana Christina Scigliani undergraduate (the random transiter)
    • Aidan Rowland undergraduate (extragalactic SETI)
    • Arianna Nielsen undergraduate (laser SETI)

Members of my group were featured in the Eberly College of Science Journal here.

Former PhD advisees:
  1. Nick Tusay (postdoc at University of Washington) (radio SETI and evaporating planets)
  2. Macy Huston (postdoc, UC Berkeley) (SETI with Dyson Spheres)
  3. Arvind Gupta (NOIRLab fellow) (RV survey design and execution)
  4. Jacob Luhn (postdoc at JPL) (RV jitter)
  5. Sofia Sheikh (staff scientist, SETI Institute) (radio SETI)
  6. Noah Tuchow (postdoc at U of Arizona) (Quantifying Habitability)
  7. Kimberly Cartier (now journalist for Eos) (HST analysis of Kepler host stars, SETI, astronomy communication)
  8. Jason Curtis, (Research Associat, Columbia University) (characterization of the Galactic cluster Ruprecht 147)
  9. Sharon (Xuesong) Wang, (Professor at Tsinghua University) (Precise Radial Velocities from HET)

Other advisees: