Current PhD Students
Recent PhD students
- Aleksandra Kuznetsova, akuznetsova@amnh.org, theoretical studies of star and protoplanetary disk formation; origin of upper mass stellar initial mass function, patterns of mass and angular momentum addition to protoplanetary disks during the protostellar phase
- Marina Kounkel, Marina.Kounkel@wwu.edu, professor at University of North Florida; originally did VLBA/optical radial velocity studies of distances and kinematics of the Orion Nebula Cluster, now an expert on the on young stellar population structures in the Milky Way using Gaia data
- Jaehan Bae, jbae@ufl.edu, professor at the University of Florida, formerly a Sagan Fellow and Rubin Fellow, at the Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory; structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks; time-dependent accretion, spiral waves and turbulence driven by planets
- Zhaohuan Zhu, zhaohuan.zhu@unlv.edu, former Hubble Fellow at Princeton, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Nevada-Las Vegas; structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks, turbulence and disk gap opening by planets, properties of circumplanetary disks
- John Tobin, jtobin@nrao.edu, former Hubble fellow, former Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oklahoma, now Project Scientist for Science Data Ready Products at NRAO; formation of stars, multiplicity of and disks around protostars
- Wen-Hsin (Tina) Hsu, formation of stars and the initial mass function.