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the students and researchers I work with, and what we're working on
I currently work with a small group of graduate students, all part of Beasts in the Bubbles, our JWST program characterizing ultra-luminous galaxies at cosmic dawn. See the research page for project details, or get in touch if you’re interested in joining.
Current Students
Lauren Henson
Using N-body merger simulations to better understand observations of high-z galaxies
Graduate Student, UC Riverside (co-supervised with Prof. Mobasher) · Beasts in the Bubbles (JWST GO 2659) · 2023–
Negin Nezhad
Building a robust NIRSpec IFU pipeline for high-redshift discovery
Graduate Student, UC Riverside (co-supervised with Prof. Mobasher and Prof. Siana) · Beasts in the Bubbles (JWST GO 2659) · 2023–
Faezeh Manesh
Star-formation histories of ultra-luminous z > 7 galaxies
Graduate Student, UC Riverside (co-supervised with Prof. Mobasher and Prof. Siana) · Beasts in the Bubbles (JWST GO 2659) · 2023–
Past Students
Graduate
| Name | Project | Years | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Cutler | Sizes of the first low-mass quiescent galaxies at cosmic noon (UMass Amherst, w/ Prof. Whitaker) | 2022–2025 | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Tufts University |
| Lukas Zalesky | Photometric redshift catalog of 20M galaxies in the Euclid Deep Fields (Institute for Astronomy, w/ Prof. Sanders) | 2020–2024 | J.D. candidate, Georgetown University Law Center |
| Natalie Allen | Profile-fitting photometry of JWST deep fields (Cosmic Dawn Center, w/ Prof. Toft) | 2021–2022 | — |
| Athansios Anastasiou | Calibration of photometric redshifts in COSMOS2020 (Cosmic Dawn Center MSc, w/ Prof. Magdis) | 2019–2020 | — |
Undergraduate
| Name | Institution | Years | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zachary Webb | UMass Amherst | 2023–2024 | Lab Technician, Spectral Solutions Inc. |
| Scott Barrow | UMass Amherst | 2023–2024 | — |
| Ananya Sreeklekha | UMass Amherst | 2022–2023 | Graduate Student, University of Toledo |
| Lillian Wright | UMass Amherst | 2019–2023 | Graduate Student, SNU |
| Rasmus Damgaard Nielsen | Cosmic Dawn Center | 2021–2022 | PhD Student, Cosmic Dawn Center, University of Copenhagen |
| Tommy Clark | Cosmic Dawn Center–Caltech SURF | 2021 | — |
| Christian Kragh Jespersen | Cosmic Dawn Center | 2020 | Fellow, University of Toronto |
| Jonas Vinther | Cosmic Dawn Center | 2020 | PhD Fellow, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen |
| Julia Tiller | NSF REU, Cosmic Dawn Center | 2019 | — |
| Albert Sneppen | Cosmic Dawn Center | 2019 | Fellow, King's College, Cambridge |