PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8030A
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 #8038B
lindsaydemarchi2024@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Margutti Group
Research Statement: Multimessenger observations of compact-object formation in core collapse supernovae
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8036A
monicagallegosgarcia2024@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Kalogera Group
Research Statement: Formation of merging binary black holes
PhD Student
Rasio Group
Office location: Dearborn 21
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: Dearborn
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
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8027
AlexanderGurvich2021@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Faucher-Giguere Group
Research Statement: Simulations of galaxy formation connecting stellar feedback to star formation and the emergence of galactic disks
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8027
AprajitaHajela2015@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Margutti Group
Research Statement: Multi-wavelength (from radio to X-rays) observations to study binary neutron star (BNS) mergers with electromagnetic counterparts, long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and tidally disrupted events (TDEs) to provide a complete picture of the physical processes behind these cosmological stellar deaths
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8038D
danatissa2023@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Tchekovskoy Group
Research Statement: Simulations of neutron star mergers and their electromagnetic counterparts
PhD Student
Office location: Dearborn 21
nkaaz@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: Dearborn
EmmaKaufman2026@u.northwestern.edu
Research Statement: Simulations of magnetic waves in stellar interiors
PhD Student
Phone number: 847-467-5108
Office location: Dearborn 21
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: Dearborn 5
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 #8036C
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: Dearborn
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
Office location: Dearborn
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: Dearborn 21
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, 8038F
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: 1801 Sherman
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
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8025
JeremyRath2020@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Lithwick Group
Research Statement: Theoretical characterization of chaos in multi-planet systems and inclined planet-disk interactions using both analytic theory and simulations
PhD Student
Office location: Dearborn 21
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 #8036D
monicarizzo2023@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Larson Group
Research Statement: Developing data analysis and visualization tools for gravitational waves from LISA sources
PhD Student
Office location: 1800 Sherman #8038E
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 #8036B
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 #8038B
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: Dearborn
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: 1800 Sherman #8032C
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 #8027
ShiYe2015@u.northwestern.edu
Group: Rasio Group
Research Statement: Globular cluster simulations using Cluster Monte Carlo (CMC) code, including the formation and evolution of millisecond pulsars in globular clusters and neutron star dynamics
