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Postdocs and Students





L to R : Ricardo Demarco, Wojciech Karas, Alex Garabedian, Daniel Seisun and me

Postdocs
  • Ricardo Demarco (2008 - 2009), currently associate professor at The University of Concepcion, Chile
  • Alessandro Rettura (2009 - 2012), currently postdoctoral researcher at JPL

  • Graduate Students
  • Alireza Farahmandi (graduated 2013)
  • Andrew DeGroot (2010 - present)
  • Ryan Foltz (2011 - present)
  • Mohamed Elhashash (2014 - present)

  • Spitzer Space Telescope Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship Advisee (2004/2005)
  • Adam Muzzin, currently postdoc at Cambridge University, UK
  • PhD 2007 University of Toronto (Advisor: Howard Yee) 2008 Royal Astronomical Society of Canada & Canadian Astronomical Society Plaskett Medal (for most outstanding doctoral thesis submitted in preceding two years)

    Undergraduates
  • Adam Lane (fall 2014-present)
  • Erick Espinoza (summer 2014-present)
  • Amalia Callahan (summer 2014)
  • Samantha Rorick (winter 2011)
  • 2011-2012 NASA & the Hispanic College Fund ``Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Techmology'' (MUST) Scholar
  • Sarah Logsdon (summer 2010), currently UCLA Astronomy grad student
  • 2010 UCSD Physical Sciences Dean's Award for Excellence
  • Alex Garabedian (2008 - 2009), currently Brown Physics grad student
  • 2008 Participant in CUREA undergraduate Astronomy experience program at Mt. Wilson Observatory
  • Wojciech Karas (2008 - 2009), currently UCR Computing Science grad student
  • 2008 Undergraduate Winner of UCR Department of Physics & Astronomy Michael Devirian Prize, Winner of Robert Wild Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate in 2009
  • Daniel Seisun (2008 - 2009), currently a business intelligence specialist at Twitter