Current members
Kevin Burdge
Assistant Professor of Physics
Research interests: Binary stars, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes, time-domain and multi-messenger astrophysics, instrumentation
Vera Berger
1st year Graduate Student in Physics
Research interests: High-energy astrophysics, black holes and neutron stars, spectral timing, magnetohydrodynamics
Joheen Chakraborty
3rd year Graduate Student in Physics
Research interests: high-energy astrophysics, gravitational waves, X-ray astronomy, high performance computing
Emma Chickles
4th year Graduate Student in Physics
Research interests: Binary stars, white dwarfs, Type Ia supernova progenitors, all-sky surveys, multi-messenger astrophysics, data mining
Malina Desai
1st year Graduate Student in Physics
Research interests: time-domain astronomy, stellar death phenomena, binary star systems, gravitational waves, black holes
Paul Draghis
Kavli Postdoctoral Fellow
Research interests: Stellar-mass black holes, accretion, X-ray binaries, AGN, TDEs, supernovae, gravitational waves, binary population synthesis, X-ray spectroscopy
Juliana Garcia-Mejia
Pappalardo and 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: ultra-precise photometry, high-resolution spectroscopy, transits, scintillation, transit timing variations
Aaron Householder
2nd year Graduate Student in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Research interests: exoplanets, white dwarfs; globular clusters; all-sky surveys, software and GPUs
Christopher Layden
4th year Graduate Student in Physics
Research interests: astronomical instrumentation (optics, sensors, astrophotonics, interferometry), time-domain astrophysics, stellar occultations, trans-Neptunian objects
Geoffrey Mo
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research interests: gravitational waves, compact binaries, multimessenger and time-domain astrophysics, globular clusters, OIR instrumentation
Kaitlyn Shin
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research interests: fast radio bursts, long-period radio transients, time-domain astrophysics
Past Members
Lisa Blomberg
Former UROP
Graduate student in Astronomy at Caltech
Chloe Choi
Former UROP
Graduate student in biology at Harvard
Danielle Frostig
Former graduate student
NSF AAPF (Simonyi-NSF Scholars)/CfA Fellow at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Mason Ng
Former graduate student
FRQNT Postdoctoral Fellow at the McGill Department of Physics and the Trottier Space Institute at McGill
Maya Redden
Former UROP
Graduate Student in physics at Stanford
Jacob Schimp
Former MSRP Student
Undergraduate student in physics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Tung Tran
Former UROP
Graduate student in physics at Stanford
Archer Wang
Former UROP
MIT EECS PhD Student