Current members at UC San Diego:
Postdoctoral Researchers:
Saavidra Perera
Aidan Gibbs
Graduate Students:
Beck Dacus (co-advised with JB Ruffio)
Jayke Nguyen
Ben Sappey
Undergraduate Students:
Annika Feng (UCLA, co-advised by Clarissa Do Ó)
Neal Hamilton (UC San Diego)
Sofia Ruiz-Murphy (UC San Diego)
Tyler Tuttle (UC San Diego)
Note: UC San Diego undergraduate students interested in research opportunities in Astronomy & Astrophysics should consult the department webpage for application information.
Former Members:
Former Postdoctoral Researchers:
Chris Theissen (NASA Sagan Fellow, now an Assistant Professor at UC San Diego)
Keming Zhang (Schmidt AI Postdoctoral Fellow, now a NASA Sagan Fellow at MIT)
Former Graduate Students:
Kielan K.W. Hoch (Ph.D. 2022, now a Giacconi Fellow at Space Telescope Science Institute)
Clarissa Do Ó (Ph.D. 2025, now a B. Thomas Soifer Postdoctoral Fellow in Astrophysics at California Institute of Technology)
Lingfeng Wei (Ph.D. 2025, now a Postdoctoral Researcher at UCLA)
Aneesh Baburaj (Ph.D. 2025, now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern)
Former Undergraduate Members
Julian Beas-Gonzales (UC San Diego)
Andres Duenas (UC San Diego)
Rex Lam (UC San Diego)
Leonardo Laboy (UC San Diego)
Danny Levinstein (UC San Diego)
Niana Mohammed (UC San Diego)
Luis Nunez (Cal Poly Pomona)
Lemmuel Silmaro (UC San Diego)
Bryn Orth-Lashley (University of Toronto, Canada)
Natasha Popenoe (UC San Diego)
Dillon Peng (UC San Diego)
Flavia Santos Do Amaral, (Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil)
Sarmen Ter-oganesyan (UC San Diego)
Debby Tran (UC San Diego)
Connor Vancil (UC San Diego)
Stella Zhang (UC San Diego)