Disk Detectives

Research group members and alumni

 Abby Quinby, Suffield Academy 2025 (expected)

 Caroline Kilian, CCSU BA 2026 (expected)

 Yamani Mpofu, BA 2027 (expected)

 Cat Hou, BA 2026 (expected)

 Allan Cheruiyot, BA 2027 (expected)

 Cat Sarosi, MA 2025 (expected)

 Brianna Zawadzki, postdoc 2023-present

 Aliya Nurmohamed, BA 2026 (expected)

 Junu Lee, BA 2025 (expected)

 Carlos Ordoñez, BA 2025 (expected)

 Saad Waheed, BA @ Williams 2025 (expected)

 Josh Grajales, BA 2025 (expected) -> 3-2 engineering @ Columbia U
Thesis title: Dynamical Mass Measurements: Molecular Gas Emission in HD 121617s Debris Disk

 Victoria Dozer, BA 2024 -> Science and Technology Policy Institute Fellow

 Elias Mansell, BA 2024, MA 2025 (expected)

 Owen Gonzales, BA 2024 -> Wesleyan BA/MA

 Erin Readling, BA 2024 -> Science Instructor with Oliver Scholars

 Jamar Kittling, BA 2024 -> PhD student at Stanford University
Thesis title: ARKS: Preliminary Parametric Models of Radial Debris Disk Structure

 Eric Rumsfeld, BA 2023 -> PhD student at UC Irvine
Thesis title: Measuring Dynamical Masses of Gas-Bearing Debris Disk Host Stars

 Anna Fehr, BA 2023 -> PhD student at Harvard University

Thesis title: Parametric Modeling of Debris Disk Density Structure for ARKS

 Hannah Lewis, BA 2023 -> PhD student at UNC

Thesis title: Preschool-age Children’s Use of Spatial Thinking When Making Sense of Astronomical Phenomena

 Ava Nederlander, BA 2022 -> PhD student at Stony Brook
Paper title: Resolving Structure in the Debris Disk around HD 206893 with ALMA

 Megan Delamer, MA 2021 -> PhD student at Penn State
Thesis title: A High Resolution Study of Spectral and Spatial Variations of Dust Properties in the 49 Ceti Debris Disk

David David Vizgan, BA 2021 -> Fulbright (Denmark), PhD student U Illinois
Thesis title: A Dual-Wavelength Study of the Vertical Structure of the AU Microscopii Debris Disk

 Rachel Marino, BA 2020 -> High school math teacher

 Diego Garcia, BA @ Middlebury College 2020 -> McMaster Carr
REU paper title: Determining the Evolutionary Status of the Disk Surrounding HD 166191

 Jessica Klusmeyer, MA 2019 -> WIYN queue observer
Thesis title: A Deep Search for Five Molecules in the Debris Disk around 49 Ceti

 Jonas Powell, BA 2018, MA 2019 -> Systems & Technology Research
Thesis title: Exploring the Role of Environment in the Composition of ONC Proplyds

 Kevin Flaherty, postdoc 2013-2018 -> Williams College

 Evan Carter, MA 2018 -> PhD Student, UT San Antonio
Thesis title: AU Mic: Using Scale Height as a Proxy for Probing the Strengths of Bodies in the Collisional Cascade

Zach Zach Lambros, BA 2017, MA 2018 -> Raytheon
Thesis title: Questing for Minute Traces of Molecular Gas in Circumstellar Debris Disks: AU Mic and 49 Ceti

 Cail Daley, BA 2018 -> PhD student, U. Illinois
Thesis title: Using Vertical Structure to Infer the Dynamical Mass Hidden in the AU Mic Debris Disk

 Jesse Lieman-Sifry, BA 2015 -> Arterys
Thesis title: The Mysterious Case of 49 Ceti: A Gas-Rich Debris Disk and its Implications for Planet Formation

 Sam Factor, BA 2014, MA 2015 -> PhD student, UT Austin
Thesis title: ALMA Observations of Molecular Gas Emission from a Protoplanetary Disk in the ONC

 Amy Steele, MA 2014 -> PhD student, U. Maryland
Thesis title: Resolved Millimeter-Wavelength Observations of Debris Disks around Sun-Like Stars

Sanaea Rose, BA @ Wellesley College 2014 -> PhD student, UCLA
REU paper title: DCO+ as a Probe of Turbulence in the Disk around HD 163296

Francisco Encalada, Broward -> U. Florida BA 2017 -> PhD student, U. Illinois
REU paper title: An Investigation of the Circumstellar Disk around TYC4496-780-1

Will Harney, BA @ Union 2015 -> Industry
REU paper title: Modeling the Circumstellar Disk of HD 141569

Angelo Ricarte, BA @ UC Berkeley 2013 -> PhD student, Yale U.
Paper title: Resolving the Moth at Millimeter Wavelengths

Noel Moldvai, BA @ UC Berkeley 2013 -> Google
Paper title: Resolving the Moth at Millimeter Wavelengths

© Meredith Hughes 2021, image credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Olivia Drake