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current and past students
I work with three graduate students at UC Riverside on Beasts in the Bubbles, our JWST program on ultra-luminous galaxies at cosmic dawn, and an MIT undergraduate on SPHEREx. Interested in visiting? See visit.
Current Students
Lauren Henson
N-body merger simulations to interpret observations of high-z galaxies
Negin Nezhad
A robust NIRSpec IFU pipeline for high-redshift discovery
Faezeh Manesh
Star-formation histories of ultra-luminous z > 7 galaxies
Mesk Abdalsalam
SPHEREx spectrophotometry with COSMOS2020 and Euclid
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 | — |
| Athanasios Anastasiou | Calibration of photometric redshifts in COSMOS2020 (Cosmic Dawn Center MSc, w/ Prof. Magdis) | 2019–2020 | — |
Undergraduate
| Name | Institution | Years | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Barrow | UMass Amherst | 2023–2024 | Fulbright Fellow |
| Ananya Sreeklekha | UMass Amherst | 2022–2023 | Graduate Student, University of Toledo |
| Lillian Wright | UMass Amherst | 2022–2023 | Graduate Student, SNU |
| Tommy Clark | Cosmic Dawn Center–Caltech SURF | 2021 | — |
| Christian Kragh Jespersen | Cosmic Dawn Center | 2020 | Schmidt AI in Science & CITA 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 |