PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8027
lindseybyrne2023@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Faucher-Giguere Group
Research Statement: Simulations of galaxy formation investigating the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8031
lindsaydemarchi2024@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Larson Group
Research Statement: Multimessenger observations of compact-object formation in core collapse supernovae
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8038D
yuxin.dong@northwestern.edu
Group: Fong Group
Research Statement: Radio follow-up of Fast Radio Bursts to uncover the origin of their progenitor system(s)
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8029
monicagallegosgarcia2024@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Kalogera Group
Research Statement: Formation of merging binary black holes
PhD Student
Rasio Group
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8038C
elena.prieto@northwestern.edu
Group: Rasio Group
Research Statement: Dynamical evolution of dense stellar environments and the formation of compact objects
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8032B
AlexaGordon2026@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Fong Group
Research Statement: Spectral energy distribution modeling of fast radio burst (FRB) host galaxies to constrain FRB progenitor models
PhD Student
GEM Associate Fellow 2022-2023
Office location: Dearborn 22
saarahhall2027@u.northwestern.edu
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8033
danatissa2023@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Tchekovskoy Group
Research Statement: Simulations of neutron star mergers and their electromagnetic counterparts
PhD Student
Lecoanet Group
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8030A
EmmaKaufman2026@u.northwestern.edu
Research Statement: Simulations of magnetic waves in stellar interiors
PhD Student
Phone number: 847-467-5108
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8029
charleskimball2012@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Kalogera Group
Research Statement: Characterizing the binary black hole populations inferred from LIGO's gravitational-wave measurements, with particular focus on black holes that cannot have formed directly from collapsed stars but may have been assembled from previous black hole mergers
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8031
FulyaKiroglu2024@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Rasio Group
Research Statement: Dynamical evolution of compact objects in dense star clusters
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8033
aretaioslalakos2022@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Tchekovskoy Group
Research Statement: The role of magnetic field configuration on black hole accretion and radiation signatures from the interaction of outflows with the ambient medium
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8035
dennislee2023@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Novak Group
Research Statement: Development and use of millimeter/submillimeter-wave astronomical instrumentation for the study of star formation
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8038F
cliotine@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Kalogera Group
Research Statement: The evolution of binary star systems, in particular the populations of stellar binaries that result in double compact object mergers that are detectable with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
PhD Student
Miller Group
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8034C
ChangLiu2025@u.northwestern.edu
Research Statement: Probing the progenitor properties of supernovae with multi-band observations
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8036A
miguel.martinez@northwestern.edu
Group: Rasio Group
Research Statement: Dynamics across a wide range of astrophysical regimes, from exoplanets and exomoons to massive star clusters
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8002
joemichail2024@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Zadeh Group
Research Statement: Characterizing the nature of the quiescent and variable components of the nearest supermassive black hole, Sgr A*
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8032D
SerenaMoseley2027@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Kalogera Group
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8035
AnyaNugent2023@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Fong Group
Research Statement: The environments and host galaxies of short gamma-ray bursts; using broad-band observations to learn more about the stellar populations around the bursts and their progenitor systems
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8027
NicholasOmahen2024@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Tchekovskoy Group
Research Statement: I study the assembly and evolution of accretion disks and their outflows in a wide variety of black hole feeding scenarios
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8038E
TeresitaRamirezAguilar2028@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Tchekovskoy Group
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8027
JillianRastinejad2024@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Fong Group
Research Statement: Observation of the astronomical explosions created by merging neutron stars, kilonovae, from both the short gamma-ray burst and gravitational wave perspective
PhD Student
Group: Miller group
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8038B
NabeelRehemtulla2027@u.northwestern.edu
Research Statement: Building machine learning models to learn about and classify sources detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8044B
JonathanRoberts2027@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Larson Group
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8035
karocha@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Kalogera Group
Research Statement: Machine learning and the evolution of binary stars and compact objects
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8035
genevieveschroeder2023@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Fong Group
Research Statement: The radio followup of both short and long gamma-ray bursts, in order to determine environment properties of the bursts and search for the presence of magnetars
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8031
candicestauffer2023@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Margutti Group
Research Statement: Supernovae and other stellar explosions across the electromagnetic spectrum, including X-Ray, UV, optical, IR, and radio
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8036B
ElizabethTeng2025@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Kalogera Group
Research Statement: Simulating binary compact object populations to predict gravitational-wave observations with LIGO
PhD Student
Office location: Dearborn 9D
carolinevonraesfeld2027@u.northwestern.edu
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8046C
hwr5641@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Novak Group
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8025
NewlinWeatherford2017@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Rasio Group
Research Statement: Star cluster simulations, focusing on compact object dynamics and observational inference of black hole populations
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8034D
NycoleWenner2026@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Zadeh Group
PhD Student
Rasio Group
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8038A
rczhang@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Rasio Group
Research Statement: Formation and evolution of radio pulsars and magnetars
